"Proclus's "Commentary on the Republic of Plato" contains in its fifth and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist antiquity. In the context of defending Homer against the criticisms leveled by Socrates in the…
"Greek "literary" epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. Originally modeled on the anonymous epitaphs and dedications inscribed on monuments throughout antiquity, these short poems came to include a variety of subtypes a…
The poems
by Clack, Jerry, Asclepiades, Samius, Leonidas <Tarentinus>, Leonidas, Tarentinus
A Hellenistic anthology
by Hérondas, Callimachus,, iz Kirene, Cleanthes,, iz Asosa, Aratus,, iz Solov, Nicander,, iz Kolofona, Theocritus, Simmias,, z Rodosa, Phanocles, Apollonius Rhodius, Moschus,, iz Sirakuz, Bion,, iz Smirne, Rhianus,, s Krete, Lycophron,, iz Halkide, Machon,, iz Korinta (ali Sikiona)
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics