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Robert Hayman's 1628 book Quodlibets devotes much of its text to epigrams.. An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, "inscription", from ἐπιγράφειν [epigráphein], "to write on, to inscribe"). [1]
An epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.
Posidippus was born in the city of Pella, capital of the kingdom of Macedon as the son of Admetos. He lived for some time in Samos before moving permanently to the court of Ptolemy I Soter and later Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Alexandria, Egypt.
Beginning of the Anthologia Palatina, main part of The Greek Anthology.Scan by the Gesellschaft der Freunde Universität Heidelberg e. V.. The Greek Anthology (Latin: Anthologia Graeca) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature.
Cunningham's longer poems "tend toward the epigrammatical, little quotable bits that express thoughts with exceptional neatness." [ 10 ] His plain-spoken lyrics about love, sex, loss, and the American West are especially haunting and original, but he was also capable of investing abstract ideas--both mathematical and philosophical--with ...
Jiroft culture inscriptions The high medieval Prüfening dedicatory inscription, composed in Latin and stamped in Roman square capitals. The science of epigraphy has been developing steadily since the 16th century.
Christian Nestell Bovee was born in New York on February 22, 1820. [2] [3]Bovee wrote two books that were widely quoted in contemporaneous compilations, these being Intuitions and Summaries of Thought and Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies.
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial / ˈ m ɑːr ʃ əl /; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.