Philippus of Thessalonica
- Philippus of Thessalonica
Philippus of Thessalonica (Greek:Φίλιππος ὁ Θεσσαλονικεύς)(1st century) or Philippus Epigrammaticus was the compiler of an Anthology of Epigrammatists subsequent to Meleager of Gadara and is himself the author of 72 epigrams in the Greek Anthology.Philippus has one word which describes the epigram by a single quality; he calls his work an "oligostikhia" or collection of poems not exceeding a few lines in length.Philippus' own epigrams, of which over seventy are extant, are generally rather dull,chiefly school exercises, and, in the phrase of Jacobs, /imitatione magis quam inventione conspicua/. But we owe to him the preservation of a large mass of work belonging to the Roman period.
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* [http://www.fullbooks.com/Select-Epigrams-from-the-Greek-Anthology1.html Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. Mackail]
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