CONTENTS

Translator’s Note

Foreword, by Richard P. Martin

I
Anonymous Epitaphs of No Known Date

II
Late Archaic and Classical Periods
600–350 BCE

III
Hellenistic Period
Age of Alexander, c. 323–100 BCE

IV
The Millennium
Pagan Roman Empire, 100 BCE–99 CE

V
Late Antiquity
Christian Roman Empire, 200–599 CE

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Biographies of the Poets