Greek Anthology Book I Chapter III Part I

Introduction

CHAPTER III
Epitaphs

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CHAPTER III

I
OF THE ATHENIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA
SIMONIDES

If to die nobly is the chief part of excellence, to us out of all men Fortune gave this lot; for hastening to set a crown of freedom on Greece we lie possessed of praise that grows not old.

• Epitaphs
• On the Lacedaemonian Dead at Plataea, Simonides
• On the Spartans at Thermopylae, Parmenio
• On the Same, Simonides
• On the Dead in an Unknown Battle, Mnasalcas
• On the Dead in a Battle in Boetia
• On a Slain Warrior, Anacreon
• On the Slain in a Battle in Thessaly, Aeschylus
• On the Athenian Dead at the Battle of Chalcis, Simonides
• On the Eretrian Exiles in Persia, Plato