Posidippus of Pella

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Hellenistic poet ancient Greek poet epigrammatist

Posidippus of Pella was a Hellenistic Greek poet best known for his epigrams, many of which are preserved in the Milan Papyrus.

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Posidippus	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Hellenistic poet ⓘ ancient Greek poet ⓘ epigrammatist ⓘ
associatedWith	Ptolemaic court in Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Ancient Macedonia NERFINISHED ⓘ
culture	Hellenistic Greek ⓘ
describedBySource	Milan Papyrus publication of 2001 NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	Hellenistic period ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Greek ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Hellenistic epigram ⓘ
floruit	3rd century BCE ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	epigram ⓘ
hasPart	epigrams on character sketches ⓘ epigrams on cures ⓘ epigrams on dedications ⓘ epigrams on epitaphs ⓘ epigrams on omens ⓘ epigrams on shipwrecks ⓘ epigrams on statues ⓘ epigrams on stones ⓘ epigrams on victory dedications ⓘ
hasWorkInCollection	Greek Anthology NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Roman epigrammatists ⓘ later Greek epigrammatists ⓘ
knownFor	large corpus of epigrams preserved on papyrus ⓘ varied thematic range in epigrams ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryForm	short elegiac couplets ⓘ
movement	Hellenistic poetry ⓘ
notableWork	Milan Papyrus epigrams NERFINISHED ⓘ epigrams ⓘ
occupation	epigrammatist ⓘ poet ⓘ
partOf	Greek Anthology tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Pella NERFINISHED ⓘ
possiblePlaceOfActivity	Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ
sourceOfInformation	Greek Anthology manuscripts ⓘ Milan Papyrus P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 NERFINISHED ⓘ ancient scholia ⓘ
workPreservedIn	Milan Papyrus NERFINISHED ⓘ

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