c. 310–240 BCE · poet
Posidippus of Pella
Ποσείδιππος
Known · AttestedA source places them at the Library or under royal patronage.
In Alexandria: c. 285–250 BCE
Epigrammatist of the Ptolemaic court, who wrote the dedication poem for the Pharos. In 2001 a book of more than a hundred of his epigrams was published from a papyrus roll reused in a mummy's wrappings: an actual book of the Library's century.
Our device: Their emblem is an inscribed stone. No likeness of any of these people is drawn. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Posidippus of Pella, Epigrams · c. 280–240 BCE (roll copied c. 230–200 BCE) · Survives in large part
Moments
- c. 280s BCE · The Pharos completed Known: attested
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Sources (2)
- P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 epigram 115 Austin–Bastianini
- K. Gutzwiller (ed.), The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (Oxford, 2005)