Dioscorides 3rd cent. B.C

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tlg0173
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urn:cite:perseus:author.519
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tlg0173
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nr2002023705
Name:
Dioscorides 3rd cent. B.C
Abbr:
Diosc.
Alt names:
Διοσκουρίδης
Dioscoride
Dioskurides, von Alexandreia
Dioscorides, Alexandrinus
Dioscurides, Alexandrinus
Dioscuride, di Alessandria
Dioscórides, de Alejandría
Dioscorides, Epigrammaticus
Diosc.
Field of activity:
Epigrammatist
Notes:
Dioscorides and Antipater of Sidon, 2001: p. 3 (lived during the last half of the 3rd cent. B.C.)
Oxford class. dict., 1996: p. 483 (Dioscorides, author of 40 epigrams in the Greek anthology, not earlier than the late 3rd cent. B.C.)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 142
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 1, 1867, p. 1051: "Dioscorides, the author of thirty-nine epigrams in the Greek Anthology.....seems, from the internal evidence of his epigrams, to have lived in Egypt..."
Brill's New Pauly: "Writer of epigrams of the ‘Garland’ of Meleager (cf. Anth. Pal. 4,1,24, where the wording Διοσκουρ- is favoured over the more widely used Διοσκορ-) who came from an otherwise unspecified Nicopolis (according to the lemma of 7,178). He lived in the 2nd half of the 3rd cent. BC, as suggested in the epitaphios for the comic actor Machon (7,708, cf. Ath. 6,241f.), in Egypt, mostly in Alexandria (cf. Anth. Pal. 11,363 and 6,290
7,76
7,166
9,568). 40 of his epigrams have been preserved
these are mainly funerary or erotic...." Degani, Enzo (Bologna).Dioscorides." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2009. Brill Online.
Author info:
Smith's Dictionary
 

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