[1] Thallus Epigrammatic poet, 2nd half of the 1st cent. BC
Epigrammatic poet from Miletus (according to [2] he had received Roman citizenship, through the patronage of Antonia Minor) lived in the 2nd half of the 1st cent. BC (in Anth. Pal. 6,235 the birth of a Καῖσαρ [Kaîsar] is celebrated, who is to be equated with either C. Julius Caesar, the grandson of Augustus, or with Germanicus). His five epigrams, which derive from the ‘Garland’ of Philippus,…
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Degani, Enzo (Bologna),
Fusillo, Massimo (L'Aquila),
Savvidis, Kyriakos (Bochum),
Berschin, Walter (Heidelberg),
Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Will, Wolfgang (Bonn),
Kaster, Robert A. (Princeton),
Eck, Werner (Cologne) and
Nutton, Vivian (London),
“Antonius”, in:
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