Posidippus

Poseidippus of Pella in Wikipedia

Poseidippus of Pella or Posidippus (Greek: Ποσείδιππος ὁ Πελλαῖος, c. 310 BC-240 BC) was an Ancient Greek epigrammatic poet who adhered to Orphism. He was born in the city of Pella capital of the kingdom of Macedon. He lived for some time in Samos before moving permanently to the court of Ptolemy I Soter and later Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Alexand...

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Posidippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. One of the most eminent poets of the New Comedy at Athens, a native of Cassandrea, in Macedonia. He began to exhibit for the first time in the third year after the death of Menander, or in B.C. 289. Of his pieces, as many as forty are mentioned by name, but only fragments of them are preserved. It was probably in imitation of one of these that t...

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