Nossis
Nossis ( Greek Νοσσίς Nossís ) was an ancient Greek epigrammatist . It worked around 280/70 BC Chr.
Nossis, daughter of Theophilis and granddaughter of Kleocha, came from Lokroi Epizephyrioi in southern Italy . In a funerary inscription dedicated to her, she compares herself with Sappho , the greatest poet of ancient Greece, and invites travelers to Mytilene to tell of Nossis there. In general, a lot of life data can be found in her work. Eleven four-line epigrams of this have survived, the assignment of a twelfth is disputed. They are contained in the " Meleager's Wreath " , the oldest part of the collection from around 100 BC. In the Anthologia Palatina . Antipater of Thessalonica counted her among the nine most outstanding poets of Greece, the nine muses of Greek poetry, and gave her the epithet θηλύγλωσσος thelýglossos , which has only been handed down at this point and means something like "with a woman's tongue".
The contents of her epigrams are dedicated to women, including two portrait descriptions. Hetaera , young girls and landladies are the focus of the erotic poetry, which emphasizes the beauty of women and connects the epigrammatic representation of art objects with their reception.
output
Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow , Denys Lionel Page (Eds.): The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1965, Volume 1: pp. 151–154, Volume 2: pp. 434–443 (with English translation)
literature
- Doris Meyer: Nossis . 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. 251-253
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Anthologia Palatina 9.26.7.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nossis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nossis Epigrammatica; Nossis from Lokroi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lokroi Epizephyrioi |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |