Epigrams

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Epigrams is a collection of short, witty, and often pointed poetic compositions attributed to the Hellenistic Greek poet Callimachus.

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Label Occurrences
Epigrams canonical 1
Épigrammes 1

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf poetry collection
approximateDate 3rd century BCE
associatedPeriod Hellenistic period
associatedPlace Alexandria NERFINISHED
attributedTo Callimachus NERFINISHED
author Callimachus NERFINISHED
authorshipStatus partly uncertain attribution
culturalContext Hellenistic Greek literature NERFINISHED
genre epigram
hasCanonicalAuthor Callimachus of Cyrene NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic pointed
short
witty
hasReception studied in modern classical scholarship
includedIn Greek Anthology NERFINISHED
influenced Roman epigram
later Greek epigrammatists
influencedBy earlier Greek lyric poetry
language Ancient Greek
literaryForm poetry
literaryMovement Alexandrian school NERFINISHED
meter elegiac couplet
nationalityOfAuthor Greek
originalMedium manuscript
partiallySurvivesAs fragments
preservation indirect tradition
relatedWork Aetia NERFINISHED
Hymns (Callimachus) NERFINISHED
scholarlyField Hellenistic poetry studies
classics
style allusive
concise
learned
subjectMatter literary criticism
love
mythological themes
textualState incomplete

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Callimachus notableWork Epigrams
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau notableWork Epigrams
this entity surface form: Épigrammes