Ants with a sweet tooth
Philip of Thessalonike not only collected the epigrams of other authors, but, like Meleager, he also wrote poems of his…
“Hail, Caesar” said the parrot
The “Garland of Philip”, published around AD 40, contains numerous epigrams addressed to Roman patrons and members of the Imperial…
A Dwarfish Whole
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity and wit its soul (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)…
Getting to the bottom of things
Aphrodite of Syracuse Despite (or because of?) their brevity ancient epigrams pose countless hermeneutical challenges, and every…