Anthologia Graeca Planudea = Anthologia diafo ron epigrammato n
ed. Ianos Laskaris, Firenze: Laurentius de Alopa (1494) " Among the
greater Greek classics, only Homer and Isocrates were in print
before the Anthology; and during the sixteenth century few of the
classics were more often re- edited" (James Hutton, The Greek
Anthology in Italy to the Year 1800 (Ithaca, New York, 1935), p.
38.
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Just a few poets soon inspired by or using Palladas: Lope di
Vega Ronsard Olivier de Magny John Donne, For than kisses, letters
mingle Soules For thus friends absent speak (Palladas 9.401)
Herrick
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Ezra Pound. Not only translates some Palladas, but see Horace,
Arion 9 (1970) 178-87: His jibes at old women are like petty
personal fusses lacking the charm of Palladas' impartial pessimism
or the artistic aloofness, the Epicurean and really godlike
impersonality of Catullus..
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Palladas as Poets poet: See e.g. John Frederick Nims
(1913-1999) Palladas bios/skene epigram is pivotal to his postwar
Masque of Blackness
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The streets and rooms they moved in rang unreal Since not yet
real to the child; say someone's dream Strange as drowned cities
where the cursive eel Flashes in alleys. A curtain-time scene:
Whether they shifted vases, turned a page All seemed last-minute
touches on a stage. The stage and a man's life-long before Avon
Cynical Palladas saw we "play a part." Though of that scenery or
the gapes it gave on Hard to say which is model and which art. Down
the steep aisles of a murky vast Theater, all seats empty, he and
she Go groping backstage; from a passionate past Glitter the lurid
flats of cloud and sea.
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Palladas and prose fiction Jonathan Swift in Gullivers
Travelsespecially in some of the more arcane proper names Prosper
Mrimes novella Carmen (source of the opera), has the epigraph (in
Greek): , , . Thomas Love Peacocks Lucianic, comic Gryll Grange
(1861), uses the bios/skene epigram as its epigraph.
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Palladas and the Philosophers Neil Cooper, Moral Nihilism,
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74 (1973-4) 75-90: I want
in this paper to consider the view which may be called 'Moral
Nihilism' or 'Moral Indifferentism', according to which nothing
matters morally. Some such view may accompany cynicism or radical
despair. The late Greek poet Palladas expresses it [he goes on to
quote several epigrams]
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Rites-de-passage, pedagogical Palladas
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Learned FOOTNOTE PALLADAS e.g. The works of Anacreon, Sappho,
Bion, Moschus and Musus. Translated from the original Greek. By
Francis Fawkes, M.A. London, MDDCLXXXIX [1789]
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Anthologisable Palladas who in every era has sounded modern
enough to be interleaved with contemporary epigrams and other short
poems
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Those were the dayswhen Latin quantities were discussed without
English translation in The Times GRAECULUS. "To The Editor Of The
Times." Times [London, England] 17 Jan. 1894: 6. The Times Digital
Archive. Web. 31 Aug. 2014.
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D. CACLAMANOS. "The New Type." Times [Lond on, England] 10 Oct.
1932: 10. By the year after, English translation of Palladas is
provided
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Cavafys Palladian aspects His own relationship with Alexandria
(cf. his fascination with Herodas mimes when they appeared) His
fascination with the pagan perspective on the early Christians His
urban settings (also preferred by Harrison, who sees this as
distinguishing him from Ted Hughes, the other late 20 th -century
Yorkshire poet. His mournful, cynical and non-optimistic tone His
lapidary textures His immersion with and constant allusion to a
dense literary heritage