Ancient Greek & Roman

Dioscorides

fl. late 3rd century BC


Dioscorides was a Hellenistic epigrammatist whose several dozen poems in the Anthology include love poems, epitaphs and dedications. The editor places him in the late third century BC; Paton's index dates him to the second.

The epigrams here are the ones that Paton's first volume ascribes to him.

  1. Book V, 52
  2. Book V, 53
  3. Book V, 56
  4. Book V, 138
  5. Book V, 193
  6. Book VI, 126
  7. Book VI, 220
  8. Book VI, 290
  9. Book VII, 31: On the Same
  10. Book VII, 37: On the Same (A statue of a Satyr is supposed to speak)
  11. Book VII, 76
  12. Book VII, 162
  13. Book VII, 166
  14. Book VII, 167
  15. Book VII, 178
  16. Book VII, 229
  17. Book VII, 351
  18. Book VII, 407
  19. Book VII, 410
  20. Book VII, 411
  21. Book VII, 430
  22. Book VII, 434
  23. Book VII, 450
  24. Book VII, 456
  25. Book VII, 484
  26. Book VII, 485
  27. Book VII, 707
  28. Book VII, 708
  29. Book IX, 340
  30. Book IX, 568
  31. Book IX, 734
  32. Book XI, 195
  33. Book XI, 363
  34. Book XII, 14
  35. Book XII, 37
  36. Book XII, 42
  37. Book XII, 169
  38. Book XII, 170
  39. Book XII, 171
  40. The Light of Troy (Mackail)
  41. On a Lydian Slave (Mackail)
  42. Thespis (Mackail)

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