November 29, 2002

Posidippus Lives!

By SCOTT McLEMEE

Discovery of long-lost poems saves an ancient author from history's remainder table

Until recently, Posidippus (a Greek poet who worked in Egypt during the third

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4 Epigrams by Posidippus

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century BC) was scarcely anyone's idea of an important writer. To

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