Poetry Codex

Ancient Greek & Roman

Plato

c. 428 – 348 BC

Plato (c. 428 – 348 BC) is credited in the Anthology with a number of short epigrams, love poems and epitaphs among them. Their authenticity is doubtful, and Paton's index gives them to Plato without comment.

The epigrams here are those that Paton's first volume ascribes to Plato.

Poems (41)

  1. Book V, 78
  2. Book V, 79
  3. Book V, 80
  4. Book VI, 1
  5. Book VI, 43
  6. Book VII, 99: On Dio
  7. Book VII, 100: On Aleais and Phaedrus (not an epitaph)
  8. Book VII, 256
  9. Book VII, 259
  10. Book VII, 265
  11. Book VII, 268
  12. Book VII, 269
  13. Book VII, 669
  14. Book VII, 670
  15. Book IX, 51
  16. Book IX, 506
  17. Book IX, 747
  18. Book IX, 823
  19. Book IX, 826: On a Satyr standing by a Well and Love Asleep
  20. Book XVI, 13
  21. Book XVI, 160: On the Same
  22. Book XVI, 161: On the Same
  23. Book XVI, 210
  24. Lovers' Lips (Mackail)
  25. Love and the Stars (Mackail)
  26. To Aphrodite, by Laïs (Mackail)
  27. On the Eretrian Exiles in Persia (Mackail)
  28. On the Same (Mackail)
  29. On a Shipwrecked Sailor (Mackail)
  30. On the Same (Mackail)
  31. Aristophanes (Mackail)
  32. On a Sleeping Satyr (Mackail)
  33. Beneath the Pine (Mackail)
  34. The Garden of Pan (Mackail)
  35. Time the Conqueror (Mackail)
  36. Reversal (Mackail)
  37. The Light of the Dead (Mackail)
  38. A Grave in Persia
  39. Starworship
  40. The Unset Star
  41. Lais

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