Ancient Greek poet
Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period.[1]
Life
Dioscorides seems, from the internal evidence of his epigrams, to have lived in Egypt, about the time of Ptolemy Euergetes.[1]
Works
Dioscorides was the author of thirty-nine epigrams in the Greek Anthology.[a] His epigrams are chiefly upon the great men and women of antiquity, especially the poets. One of them[b] would seem, from its title in the Vatican MS., Διοσκορίδου Νικοπολίτου, to be the production of a later writer.[1]
The epigrams of Dioscorides were included in the Garland of Meleager.[c][1]
References
Notes
- ^ Brunck, Anal. i. 493; Jacobs, i. 244; xiii. 706, No. 142.
- ^ No. 35.
- ^ Jacobs, xiii. pp. 886, 887.
Citations
- ^ a b c d Smith 1867, p. 1051.
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