Calleas(80 words)
[German version]
(Καλλέας; Kalléas) of Argos. Otherwise unknown composer of a sympotic epigram (Anth. Pal. 11,232) based on the saying: ‘wine reveals one's character’, a version of the old saying in vino veritas (cf. Alcaeus fr. 333 Voigt; Thgn. 500; Aesch. fr. 393 Radt etc.). The very rare compound λυσσομανής (‘raging’, v. 2) was probably adopted from Antipater [8] of Sidon (Anth. Pal. 6,219,2).
Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna)
Bibliography
V. Longo, L'epigramma scoptico greco, 1967, 106
H. Beckby, Anthologia Graeca, III-IV, 21967.
Cite this page
Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna),
“Calleas”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e605980>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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