Poetry Codex

Ancient Greek & Roman

Mesomedes of Crete

fl. 2nd century AD (time of Hadrian)

Mesomedes of Crete was a freedman and court musician of the emperor Hadrian in the second century AD. He is best known for a small group of lyric hymns, and Paton’s Index of Authors places him in the time of Hadrian.

This archive carries the 2 epigrams ascribed to the poet in the fifth volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Loeb, 1918): Book XIV: 63; Book XVI: 323.

Poems (2)

  1. Book XIV, 63: On the Sphinx
  2. Book XVI, 323: On the Invention of Glass

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