Posidippus

Poseidippos of Pella (Greek Ποσείδιππος Poseidippos, Latinized Posidippus, also Poseidippos of Kassandreia; * to 310 BC; † 240 BC) was a Hellenistic poet and epigrams.

Life

Poseidippos was born in Pella, the capital of Macedonia, according to another reading in Kassandreia on the Chalkidiki ( Macedonia). The idea, whether it be two different people: Poseidippos of Pella, the epigrams and Poseidippos of Kassandreia, the comic poet, fails because both life data (~ 310 - ~ 240 BC) and the stay at the court of the Ptolemies are identical. According to classical tradition Poseidippos reported Kassandreia ( the playwright ) on the Pharos of Alexandria and wrote an epigram.

He studied philosophy in Athens. He lived for some time in Samos before he went to the court of the Ptolemies to Alexandria. A datable to the year 264/263 Inscription from Thermos in Aetolia guaranteed him the city rights.

Poseidippos was friends with the poets Asclepiades and Hedylos. Twenty of his epigrams preserved in the Greek anthology; more poems are narrated by Athenaeus.

In 2001, a papyrus was published, containing about 100 newly discovered poems Poseidippos ( about 600 verses ). They relate to events at the court of the Ptolemies; particularly revealing are epigrams on Win Ptolemaic queens when chariot races at Olympia.

Expenditure

  • Guida Bastianini, Claudio Gallazzi (ed.): Epigrammi ( P. Mil Vogl VIII 309.. ), Milano 2001, ISBN 88-7916-165-2
  • Colin Austin et al. (Ed.): quae super sunt omnia Posidippi Pellaei, Milano 2002, ISBN 88-7916-193-8
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