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Epigrams

Known · Probablein Alexandria?Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

◇ Doubted: the attribution is uncertain; its date is uncertain. The epigrams are his, but some poems in the Anthology under his name, including the one to Hypatia, are doubtful.

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Lyric (melic) poetry: “epigram”

Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

Palladas of Alexandria

Epigrams

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

◇ Doubted: the attribution is uncertain; its date is uncertain. The epigrams are his, but some poems in the Anthology under his name, including the one to Hypatia, are doubtful.

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II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in large part

About 150 epigrams in the Greek Anthology; a papyrus codex has pushed his date back to the reign of Constantine.

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Probable

Written in Alexandria.

On the table: written in Alexandria; no evidence it was in the Library.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references
  • Greek Anthology 9.400 and passim
Modern scholarship
  • K. W. Wilkinson, 'Palladas and the Age of Constantine', Journal of Roman Studies 99 (2009): 36-60.

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EPIGRAMS

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