Series | Antiquity Studies
Edited book | ΦΑΙΔΙΜΟΣ ΕΚΤΩΡ
Chapter | Athenaeus and Hellenistic Epigram

Athenaeus and Hellenistic Epigram

I explore the distribution of Athenaeus’ citations of Hellenistic epigrams, in what sort of texts he found them, and whether he knew Meleager’s Garland. Listing poems cited, I note as absent Asclepiades, Dioscorides, Leonidas, and Meleager. I suggest Athenaeus knew either single-author books or a collection of all or many of some poets’ epigrams. Reviewing hypotheses about such a collection (probably of Poseidippus, Asclepiades and Hedylus), I propose that Athenaeus spotted Hedylus on encountering the three-author collection, then turned to single-author editions of two of these poets, Poseidippus and Hedylus, citing poems either that Meleager chanced not to select or that he knew not to be in his Garland.


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Submitted: May 17, 2021 | Accepted: June 23, 2021 | Published: Dec. 16, 2021 | Language: en

Keywords Poseidippus Hedylus Athenaeus Collection Callimachus Garland Book Epigram Asclepiades Hellenistic

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