Epigrams (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Meleager
- First Published: 1890
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, Nature, Literature, Poetry or poets, Flowers, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people
Critical Evaluation:
Meleager is one of the few surviving voices in Greek literature from the early first century b.c.e. This century, so rich for Roman literature, was perhaps the scantiest of all the classical period for Greek literature. Our sense of dearth is intensified by the kind of literature which survived. Ancient Greek literature at no time produced seriously realistic writing, and when the mythical core vanished, the remains took the form of history, philosophy, or artificial styles such as New Comedy, Romance, and Epigram. Ironically, in this unsettled century,...
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