Ancient Greek & Roman

Menecrates of Smyrna

date not given by Paton


Menecrates of Smyrna is one of the epigrammatists whose short poems were gathered in the Greek Anthology. Paton's index of authors gives no firm date for the poet. Paton's index lists the poet among the writers of the Wreath of Meleager, the Garland compiled in the first century BC.

This archive carries the 2 epigrams ascribed to the poet in the third volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Book IX: 54, 390).

  1. Book IX, 54
  2. Book IX, 390

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