Greek Anthology - Hadrian to the Accession of Commodus

Ammianus is the author of twenty-nine epigrams in the Anthology, all irrisory. One of them ("Anth. Pal." xi. 226) is imitated from Martial, ix. 30. Another sneers at the neo-Atticism which had become the fashion in Greek prose writing. His date is fixed by an attack on Antonius Polemo, a well-known sophist of the age of Hadrian.

Roman Period | Augustan Age of the Roman Period | Section on the Neronian era of the Roman Period of The Greek Anthology | Hadrian to the Accession of Commodus