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Ancient Greek & Roman

Bion of Smyrna

fl. c. 100 BC

Bion of Phlossa, near Smyrna, was a Greek bucolic poet who flourished in Sicily in the late second and early first centuries BC.

Only one complete poem, The Lament for Adonis, and a few small fragments of his other poems survive; the fragments are preserved in quotations by Stobaeus and others.

Poems (38)

  1. The Lament for Adonis
  2. Myrson and Lycidas
  3. From a Shepherd-Mime
  4. Love and the Fowler
  5. Love's Schooling
  6. A Love Poem
  7. The Poet's Philosophy of Life
  8. Requited Love
  9. To Hesperus
  10. To Aphrodite
  11. Of Hyacinthus
  12. Galatea's Lover
  13. Do It Yourself
  14. Love and Song
  15. Persistence
  16. Worthy of His Hire
  17. After Their Kind
  18. God Willing
  19. The Lament for Adonis (Lang)
  20. The Love of Achilles (Lang)
  21. The Seasons (Lang)
  22. The Boy and Love (Lang)
  23. The Tutor of Love (Lang)
  24. Love and the Muses (Lang)
  25. Fragment VII (Lang)
  26. Fragment VIII (Lang)
  27. Fragment IX (Lang)
  28. Fragment X (Lang)
  29. Fragment XI (Lang)
  30. Fragment XII (Lang)
  31. Fragment XIII (Lang)
  32. Fragment XIV (Lang)
  33. Fragment XV (Lang)
  34. Fragment XVI (Lang)
  35. Fragment XVII (Lang)
  36. Fragment XVIII (Lang)
  37. Fragment XIX (Lang)
  38. Fragment XX (Lang)

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