The Poems Attributed to Him May Be by Different Poets
by David Trinidad
(take a deep breath...it's a bit of a long one :))

He lived in the time of Alexander the Great, to whose death he alludes.
His extant poems are chiefly about country life and hunting.
He is often described as the father of tragedy.
Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived.
It seems probable that his parents, though poor, were respectable.
The work survives, but seems incomplete.
The Greek Anthology contains an epigram which is probably the work of this flatterer.
He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may
have exchanged poems.
Some of his poems are on literary themes, but most are political.
His report describes accurately the characteristic sequence of earthquake, retreat of the
sea, and sudden giant wave.
His widespread popularity inspired countless imitators, which also kept his name
alive.
Described by contemporaries as “a terrible fellow to coin strange words.”
Scarcely anything is known of his life.
He is associated with the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which he described in a
poem composed about 140 B.C.
Known for being the first to mention use of the waterwheel in a poem.
More of her work survives than any other ancient Greek woman, with the exception of
Sappho.
A crater on the Moon is named in his honor.
A man of taste and elegance, yet deficient in gravity and energy, which prevented his
writings acquiring that popularity which they otherwise deserved, and may have
been one of the causes of their neglect and loss to us.
The majority of his work that has survived is love songs.
One night in 191 A.D., they kidnapped him and threatened to kill him if he did not stop
writing.
His career as a poet probably benefited from the high reputation of his uncle.
All of his works are lost and are only known by their titles through quotes by later
authors.
He especially excelled in descriptions dealing with such subjects as flowers and female
beauty.
He is not usually ranked among the top tier of Latin poets, but his writing is elegant, he
tells a story well, and his polemical passages occasionally attain an unmatchable
level of entertaining vitriol.
There is no reason to suppose he ever lived anywhere other than Alexandria.
He had a daughter who found fame as a poet, composing riddles in hexameter verse.
His brother was an epic poet.
Swaggering soldiers, verbose cooks, courtesans, and parasites, all feature in the
fragments.
About 550 lines of his poetry survive, although because ancient writers rarely
mentioned which poem they were quoting, it is not always certain to which poem
the quotes belong.
An epigram on an ageing vine is attributed to him.
Her poem has been deemed important for the glimpse it gives us of a girl’s view of her
relationship with her mother.
He was apparently, although obscure, well respected.
He spent much of his life in Athens, where he amassed great wealth.
He is known to have written some erotic verses.
Most of his epigrams are in praise of wine, and all of them are jocular.
He seems to have been a poet of some celebrity.
Some ancient scholars believed him to have been an eyewitness to the Trojan War.
He was greatly admired, chiefly, it would seem, for a sort of elegant wit.
Although he became quite famous after his death, he was only able to earn a bare
subsistence from his poetry during his lifetime.
Best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently
ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
The popularity which he enjoyed in his own time is attested by the fact that at his
death, although he had filled none of the offices of state, he received the honor of a
public funeral.
The most famous of his poems opens “Love is not . . .”
The year of his death is not known.
He typically describes himself not as an active and engaged lover, but as one struck by
the beauty of a woman or boy.
A total of fifteen poems are known.
The time he lived is not certain.
He wrote short poems suitable for performance at drinking parties.
She wrote a hymn to Poseidon.
Two other poems, attributed to him at one time or another but no longer thought to be
his, are commonly edited with his work.
Although his fame was great during his lifetime, little survives of his poetry today.
A large proportion of his epigrams are directed against doctors.
Her epigrams were inspired by Sappho, whom she claims to rival.
His poems are bitter about his wife to the point of misogyny.
He died in Athens, nearly a hundred years old, but with mental vigor unimpaired,
about the year 262 B.C., according to the story, at the moment of his being crowned
on stage.
His epigrams are generally rather dull.
Some ambiguity surrounds his name.
He traveled in Greece, Italy and Asia, reciting his poems.
In his hands the dithyramb seems to have been a sort of comic opera, and the music,
composed by himself, of a debased character.
Aristotle found cause to quote him.
His existence is unclear.
His entire work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years.
He wrote only about drinking and love.
She probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, of which only about 650 survive.
His fame as a poet rests largely on his ability to present basic human situations with
affecting simplicity.
He is the earliest Greek poet who claims explicitly to be writing for future generations.

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