Antipater of Sidon

Antipater of Sidon was a Greek Epigrammdichter Meleager - rim, who lived in Rome from the late 2nd century BC to the beginning of the 1st century BC.

Antipater was considered an important representative of the Phoenician school. 68 received grave and Weihepigramme originate undisputed by him and have been handed down inter alia in the Anthologia Palatina. One of these epigrams treated as the destruction of Corinth by the Romans (146 BC). Darling imitated the rhetorical trained Antipater after the epigrams Leonidas of Tarentum, who served him as a model. His style is dramatic and rich in images, its language has numerous Dorismen on. He influenced, inter alia, the consul of 102 BC, Quintus Catulus Lutatius, who also acted as Epigrammdichter.

In the Anthologia Palatina also the first fully preserved list of the Seven Wonders of the World in the form of an epigram, among other things obtained, which is attributed to Antipater. This is usually identified in research with the one here Antipater of Sidon. At the end of the list of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is emphasized as particularly boast of our World Wonders.