Epigrams

Epigrams

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  Epigram 1

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  16 lines
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  Epigram 2

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 4

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 5

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  12 lines
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  Epigram 6

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 7

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 8

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 9

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 10

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 11

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 12

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 13

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 14

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 15

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 16

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 17

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 18

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 19

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 20

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 21

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 22

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 23

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 24

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 25

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 26

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 27

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 28

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 29

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 30

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 31

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 32

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 33

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 34

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 35

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 37

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 38

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  5 lines
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  Epigram 39

  Picking up where Thucydides left off in 411. Naval warfare in the Hellespont. Alcibiades returns to Athens in triumph. The Athenian fleet is destroyed at Aegospotami.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 40

  Lysander imposes the Thirty Tyrants on Athens. Civil war and the democratic restoration. Socrates appears briefly. Sparta is supreme — but already overreaching.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 41

  Agesilaus campaigns in Asia Minor. The Corinthian War erupts in Greece. Sparta fights on two fronts. Conon rebuilds the Athenian walls with Persian money.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 42

  The King's Peace: Persia dictates terms to Greece. Sparta enforces the peace to her own advantage and seizes the Cadmea in Thebes. The act of aggression that will destroy Spartan power.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 43

  Theban revolution. Pelopidas liberates Thebes and Epaminondas builds a new army. Sparta's grip on Greece begins to slip.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 44

  Leuctra. Epaminondas destroys the Spartan army and invades the Peloponnese. Messenia is freed after centuries of helot slavery. The Spartan system collapses.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 45

  The aftermath. Thebes dominates but cannot hold Greece together. Epaminondas dies at Mantinea in 362. Xenophon ends with Greece in greater confusion than ever.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 46

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  10 lines
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  Epigram 47

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 48

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 49

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 50

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 51

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 52

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 53

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 54

  A miniature masterpiece of Hellenistic wit — Callimachus compresses an entire world of feeling into a few perfectly crafted lines.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 55

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 56

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 57

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 58

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 59

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  6 lines
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  Epigram 60

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  2 lines
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  Epigram 61

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 62

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  4 lines
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  Epigram 63

  An epigram by Callimachus — a brief, polished poem on love, death, literary rivalry, or dedication, in the voice of Hellenistic poetry's most influential figure.

  6 lines