Biographies of the Epigrammatists

From J. W. Mackail

Mimnermus of Smyrna fl. B.C. 634-600, and was the contemporary of Solon. He is spoken of as the "inventor of elegy," and was apparently the first to employ the elegiac metre in threnes and love-poems. Only a few fragments, about eighty lines in all, of his poetry survive.

Select Epigrams from The Greek Anthology

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• Greek Literature From the Earliest Period to the Persian Wars
• Mimnermus of Smyrna
• Erinna of Rhodes
• Theognis of Megara
• Anacreon of Teos
• Simonides of Ceos
• Bacchylides of Iulis
• Aeschylus

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