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  2. Leonidas of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Leonidas [a] of Alexandria (/ l i ˈ ɒ n ɪ d ə s,-d æ s /; Ancient Greek: Λεωνίδας; Latin: Leonidas Alexandrinus; fl. 1st century AD) was a Greek epigrammatist active at Rome during the reigns of Nero and Vespasian. Some of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and in one he lays claim to having invented the isopsephic ...

  3. Leonidas of Tarentum - Wikipedia

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    Leonidas' epigrams focused on humble workers like fishermen, hunters, and weavers. He reshaped traditional representations of these professionals by creating a "community of workers." Unlike Homer, who mainly depicted craftsmen, Leonidas included various professions. Leonidas referenced Homer but adapted his portrayal to reflect Hellenistic ...

  4. Greek Anthology - Wikipedia

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    The epigrams on works of art, as already stated, are missing from the Codex Palatinus, and must be sought in an appendix of epigrams only occurring in the Planudean Anthology. The epigrams hitherto recovered from ancient monuments and similar sources form appendices in the second and third volumes of Dübner's edition.

  5. Leonides of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    According to the Christian historian Eusebius, Leonides' son was the early Church father Origen. [1] Eusebius also says that he was of Greek nationality. [1] In the same passage Eusebius tells us that Leonides was martyred during the persecution of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus in the year 202 AD.

  6. Epigram - Wikipedia

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    An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ...

  7. Theocritus - Wikipedia

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    As Leonidas of Tarentum wrote epigrams on fishermen, and one of them is a dedication of his tackle to Poseidon by Diophantus, the fisher, it is likely that the author of this poem was an imitator of Leonidas. It can hardly be by Leonidas himself, who was a contemporary of Theocritus, as it bears marks of lateness. [6] 25.

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  9. Battle of Thermopylae in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The battle's earliest known appearance in culture is a series of epigrams commemorating the dead written by Simonides of Ceos in the battle's aftermath. [2] Already by the fourth century BCE, the battle had been reframed as a victory of sorts in Greek writing, in contrast to how it was described by fifth-century BCE Greek historian Herodotus.