Antipater of sidon poems about love

          And Smerdies sleeps, the spring-tide of the Loves, to whom, striking the lyre, you made music like unto nectar.!

          Antipatros of Sidon was a poet of the second half of the 2 nd century BC who wrote sixty-nine epigrams included in the Garland of Meleagros.

        1. Antipatros of Sidon was a poet of the second half of the 2 nd century BC who wrote sixty-nine epigrams included in the Garland of Meleagros.
        2. He proved his stubborn hand.
        3. And Smerdies sleeps, the spring-tide of the Loves, to whom, striking the lyre, you made music like unto nectar.
        4. Antipater of Thessalonica was a prolific writer of epigrams, who lived during the reign of the emperor Augustus in the late first century BC.
        5. O Tomb, what symbol is this?

          6. The HyperTexts

          Antipater of Sidon: The Poet of Praise
          with modern English translations by Michael R. Burch

          Antipater of Sidon, who died circa 110-100 BC, was one of the greatest Greek poets of antiquity.

          While we know precious little about his life, we do know that he was writing during the second half of the second century BC. Cicero mentioned him living in Rome at the time of Crassus and Catullus, and called him a brilliant epigrammatist, albeit one sometimes too fond of imitation.

          But if so, what imitations! Fortunately, around 67 of Antipater's poems were preserved in the Greek Anthology, according to the Gow-Page edition.

          Sappho ascribes love to different kinds of nouns, contrary to hooks' impression of love as an action.

          But there seems to have been some confusion in the anthology between Antipater of Sidon and Antipater of Thessalonica, so that number involves some guesswork. The preserved poems include a good number of tributary epitaphs and praiseful evocations of art and literature.

          Antipater is most famously associated with the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, wh