Poetry Codex

Ancient Greek & Roman

Agathias Scholasticus

c. 530 – c. 580

Agathias Scholasticus, born at Myrina in Asia Minor about 530, practised as a lawyer at Constantinople and wrote a history of Justinian's wars. He gathered the poems of his generation in the Cycle, a collection of new epigrams, around 567.

The epigrams here include the two proems of the Cycle (Book IV, 3 and 4) and the many love poems that Paton ascribes to him in Book V and dedications in Book VI.

Poems (112)

  1. Book I, 34: On another on the Island of Platé
  2. Book I, 35: On the Archangel in the Sosthenium
  3. Book I, 36: On a picture of Theodorus the Illustrious and twice Proconsul, in which he is shown receiving the insignia of office from the Archangel in Ephesus
  4. Book IV, 3
  5. Book IV, 4
  6. Book V, 216
  7. Book V, 218
  8. Book V, 220
  9. Book V, 222: To a harp-player and tragic actress called Ariadne
  10. Book V, 237
  11. Book V, 261
  12. Book V, 263
  13. Book V, 267
  14. Book V, 269
  15. Book V, 273
  16. Book V, 276
  17. Book V, 278
  18. Book V, 280
  19. Book V, 282
  20. Book V, 285
  21. Book V, 287
  22. Book V, 289
  23. Book V, 292
  24. Book V, 294
  25. Book V, 296
  26. Book V, 297
  27. Book V, 299
  28. Book V, 302
  29. Book VI, 32
  30. Book VI, 41
  31. Book VI, 59
  32. Book VI, 72
  33. Book VI, 74
  34. Book VI, 76
  35. Book VI, 79
  36. Book VI, 80
  37. Book VI, 167
  38. Book VII, 204
  39. Book VII, 205
  40. Book VII, 220
  41. Book VII, 311: On Lot’s Wife
  42. Book VII, 551
  43. Book VII, 552
  44. Book VII, 567
  45. Book VII, 568
  46. Book VII, 569
  47. Book VII, 572
  48. Book VII, 574
  49. Book VII, 578
  50. Book VII, 583
  51. Book VII, 589
  52. Book VII, 593: On Eugenia his Sister
  53. Book VII, 596: On Theodotus his brother-in-law
  54. Book VII, 602
  55. Book VII, 612
  56. Book VII, 614
  57. Book IX, 152: On Troy
  58. Book IX, 153: On the Same
  59. Book IX, 154: On the Same
  60. Book IX, 155: On the Same
  61. Book IX, 204
  62. Book IX, 442
  63. Book IX, 482
  64. Book IX, 619: On a Bath in Byzantium
  65. Book IX, 631: On the Hot Baths of Agamemnon near Smyrna
  66. Book IX, 641: On a Bridge over the Sangarius
  67. Book IX, 642: On a Latrine in the Suburbs of Smyrna
  68. Book IX, 643: On the Same
  69. Book IX, 644: On the Same
  70. Book IX, 653: On a House situated on a Hill in Constantinople
  71. Book IX, 662: On the same as 642 ff.
  72. Book IX, 665: On the Same
  73. Book IX, 677: On a House in Constantinople
  74. Book IX, 766: On the Same
  75. Book IX, 767: On a Draught-board
  76. Book IX, 768: On the Same
  77. Book IX, 769: On the Same
  78. Book X, 14
  79. Book X, 64
  80. Book X, 66
  81. Book X, 68
  82. Book X, 69
  83. Book XI, 57
  84. Book XI, 64
  85. Book XI, 350
  86. Book XI, 352
  87. Book XI, 354
  88. Book XI, 365
  89. Book XI, 372
  90. Book XI, 376
  91. Book XI, 379
  92. Book XI, 382
  93. Book XVI, 36: On the Picture of a certain Sophist at Pergamus
  94. Book XVI, 41: On a Portrait dedicated in the Property of Placidia by the new Curators of the Treasury
  95. Book XVI, 59: On the Same
  96. Book XVI, 80
  97. Book XVI, 109: On Hippolytus conversing with Phaedra’s Nurse
  98. Book XVI, 244: On a Painting of a Satyr holding a Reed-Pipe to his Ear as if it were Listening
  99. Book XVI, 331: On a Picture of Plutarch
  100. A Kiss Within the Cup (Mackail)
  101. Love at the Vintage (Mackail)
  102. Sleepless Night (Mackail)
  103. Forget-Me-Not (Mackail)
  104. To the God of Arcady (Mackail)
  105. On a Tame Partridge (Mackail)
  106. The Higher Metaphysic (Mackail)
  107. On a Picture of a Faun (Mackail)
  108. Worship in Spring (2) (Mackail)
  109. The Bride's Vigil (Mackail)
  110. Household Happiness (Mackail)
  111. Troy (Mackail)
  112. The Astrologer's Forecast (Mackail)

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