List of well-known epigrammatists

The list of well-known epigrammatists includes well-known epigram writers from ancient times to the present.

Antiquity

Greek antiquity

• Asklepiades by Adramyttion
• Asklepiades of Samos
• Antipater of Sidon
• Antipater of Thessalonica
• Hegesippos
• Meleager of Gadara
• Poseidippus
• Simonides of Keos

Greek late antiquity

• Palladas
• Paul Silentiarius

Latin antiquity

• Catullus
• Domitius Marsus
• Martial

Latin late antiquity

• Ausonius

Renaissance and early modern times

• Euricius Cordus
• Gilbert Ducher
• Clement Marot
• Johannes Secundus

Baroque

• August Augspurger
• John Owen
• John Owen

enlightenment

• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Classic

• Friedrich Rückert
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Johann Christian Auernhammer = Christian Wallis (1793–1862) wrote epigrammatic experiments and other epigrammatic works.

present

• Josef Eberle Poeta laureatus
• Erich Kästner wrote in a nutshell: Epigrams. Cologne and Berlin 1959.
• Edgar Lee Masters , for example in his Spoon River Anthology
• Alan J. Perlis wrote humorous epigrams about programming ( Epigrams in Programming )