Antipater of Sidon
Antipater of Sidon was an ancient Greek epigram poet of the Meleager wreath. He lived from the end of the 2nd century BC. Until the beginning of the 1st century BC. In Rome .
Antipater was considered an important representative of the Phoenician school. 68 preserved grave and consecration pigrams undisputedly come from him and have come down to us in the Anthologia Palatina . One of these epigrams deals with the destruction of Corinth by the Romans (146 BC). The rhetorically trained Antipater skilfully imitated the epigrammatist Leonidas of Taranto , who served him as a model. His style is dramatic and rich in images , and his language shows numerous Dorisms . Among other things, he influenced the consul of 102 BC. BC, Quintus Lutatius Catulus , who also worked as an epigram writer.
The Anthologia Palatina also contains the first completely preserved list of the Seven Wonders of the World in the form of an epigram that is ascribed to an Antipater. In research, this is mostly identified with Antipater of Sidon. At the end of the list, the temple of Artemis in Ephesus is highlighted as a particularly praiseworthy wonder of the world.
literature
- Doris Meyer: Antipater of Sidon . In: Bernhard Zimmermann , Antonios Rengakos (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Volume 2: The Literature of the Classical and Hellenistic Period. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-61818-5 , pp. 269-271
- Enzo Degani: Antipater [8]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 778 f.
- Richard Reitzenstein : Antipater 22 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2513 f. (outdated).
- Joachim Penzel: Variation and Imitation: a literary commentary on the epigrams of Antipater of Sidon and Archias of Antiocheia (= BAC 71). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2006, ISBN 978-3-88476-871-6 (Greek / German).
Remarks
- ↑ Anthologia Palatina 9, 151.
- ^ Cicero , De oratore 3, 194.
- ↑ Anthologia Palatina 9, 58.
- ↑ The alternative is Antipater of Thessalonica .
- ↑ Kai Brodersen : The Seven Wonders of the World . CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-40329-8 , p. 10f.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antipater of Sidon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek epigram poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |