Poetry Codex

Ancient Greek & Roman

Philodemus of Gadara

c. 110 – c. 35 BC

Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 – c. 35 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher and a clever, light-hearted writer of epigrams. He lived in Italy under the patronage of Lucius Calpurnius Piso, and his library was found at Herculaneum.

The epigrams here are those that Paton's first volume ascribes to him by name.

Poems (35)

  1. Book V, 4
  2. Book V, 13
  3. Book V, 24
  4. Book V, 25
  5. Book V, 46
  6. Book V, 107
  7. Book V, 112
  8. Book V, 115
  9. Book V, 120
  10. Book V, 121
  11. Book V, 123
  12. Book V, 124
  13. Book V, 126
  14. Book V, 131
  15. Book V, 132
  16. Book V, 306: Addressed by a Girl to a Man
  17. Book VI, 349
  18. Book VII, 222
  19. Book IX, 412
  20. Book IX, 570
  21. Book X, 21
  22. Book X, 103
  23. Book XI, 34
  24. Book XI, 35
  25. Book XI, 41
  26. Book XI, 44
  27. Book XI, 318
  28. Book XII, 173
  29. Book XVI, 234
  30. Love and Reason (Mackail)
  31. Moonlight (Mackail)
  32. To the Gods of Sea and Weather (Mackail)
  33. The Flower Unblown (Mackail)
  34. Epilogue (Mackail)
  35. Returning Spring (Mackail)

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