Poseidippus
Poseidippos of Pella ( Greek Ποσείδιππος Poseídippos , Latinized Posidippus ; * around 310 BC; † 240 BC) was a Hellenistic epigrammatist . He should not be confused with the comedy poet Poseidippus von Kassandreia .
Poseidippus came from Pella , the capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia . He studied philosophy in Athens . He lived on Samos for some time before going to Alexandria to the court of the Ptolemaic kings.
Poseidippus was friends with the poets Asklepiades and Hedylos . Twenty of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek anthology ; further poems have come down to us from Athenaios .
In 2001 a papyrus was published containing around 100 newly discovered poems by Poseidippus (around 600 verses). They concern events at the court of the Ptolemies; Epigrams on victories of Ptolemaic queens in the chariot race in Olympia are particularly revealing .
expenditure
- Colin Austin et al. (Ed.): Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia , Milano 2002, ISBN 88-7916-193-8
- Guido Bastianini , Claudio Gallazzi (eds.): Epigrammi (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309) , Milano 2001, ISBN 88-7916-165-2
- Bernd Seidensticker , Adrian Stähli, Antje Wessels (eds.): The new Poseidipp. Text - translation - comment. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-534-24356-3
literature
Overview representations
- Valentina Garulli: Posidippe de Pella . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Vol. 5, Part 2, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-271-07399-0 , pp. 1469-1480
- Doris Meyer: Poseidippus by Pella . 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. 258-266
Investigations
- Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Ed.): Labored in papyrus leaves. Perspectives on an epigram collection attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil Vogl. VIII 309) , Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2004
- Kathryn Gutzwiller (Ed.): The new Posidippus. A Hellenistic poetry book. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005
- Volker Michael Strocka : Poseidippos von Pella and the beginnings of Greek art history . In: Klio 89, 2007, pp. 332–345 ( PDF )
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| SURNAME | Poseidippus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poseidippus of Pella; Poseidippus of Kassandreia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hellenistic poet and epigrammatist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 310 BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pella or Kassandreia in Macedonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 240 BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Alexandria |