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Dioscorides (poet)

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Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period.[1]

Life

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Dioscorides seems, from the internal evidence of his epigrams, to have lived in Egypt, about the time of Ptolemy Euergetes.[1]

Works

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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

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Notes

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  1. ^ Brunck, Anal. i. 493; Jacobs, i. 244; xiii. 706, No. 142.
  2. ^ No. 35.
  3. ^ Jacobs, xiii. pp. 886, 887.

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d Smith 1867, p. 1051.

Bibliography

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