SOURCE: Tarán, Sonya Lida. “Erotic Epigrams: The KΩMOΣ and the ΠAPAKΛAYΣITYPON.” In The Art of Variation in the Heroic Epigram, pp. 52, 92-114. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979.
In the following excerpt, Tarán provides a close reading of several of Meleager's epigrams, focusing on his unique combination of traditional Greek motifs. Tarán also traces the influence of preceding epigrammatists on the author.
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