John Donne

John Donne

male, deceased (1631)
convert to Anglicanism, from the City of London, Sonneteers, loyalist, Anglican priest, English…epigram
John Donne, 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable fo...
Martial

Martial

male, deceased (102)
Pederastic poetry, roman emperor, epigram, ancient rome, emperor, latin language
Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of...

Posidippus

male
Alexandria, poet, ancient greek, ancient egypt, epigram, Ptolemaic dynasty
Posidippus (also transliterated Poseidippos) was a Hellenistic Greek epigrammatic poet (c.280 - 240 BC) who adhered to Orphism. Born in the...

Philodemus

male
Coele-Syria, Classical humanist, poet, Aesthetics, satires, Greek Anthology…epigram
Philodemus of Gadara (in Greek) (Gadara, Coele-Syria, c. 110 BCE-probably Herculaneum c. 40/35 BCE) was an Epicurean philosopher and poet who...

Nossis

female
Ancient Greek women writer, poet, ancient greek, epigram, Locri
Nossis was an ancient Greek epigrammist, c. 300 BCE, who lived in Locri. Her epigrams were inspired by Sappho.

Palladas

male
Christian, persona, 4th century, misogyny, Patriarch of Alexandria, in poetry…epigram
Palladas (flourished 4th century AD) was a Greek poet, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. All that is known about this poet has been deduced from his...
Antipater Of Sidon

Antipater Of Sidon

male
Oratore, Greek Anthology, Antipatros Sidonios, Diodoros of Sicily, ancient greece, bce…epigram
Antipater of Sidon, Antipatros or Antipatros Sidonios in the Anthologies, was an ancient Greek poet in the second half of the 1st century BCE. He...
Leonidas Of Tarentum

Leonidas Of Tarentum

male
poet, ancient greek, epigram, tarentum, calabria, Magna Graecia
Leonidas of Tarentum (Doric Greek "'"') was an epigrammatist and lyric poet, who lived in the third century B.C. Leonidas lived in Tarentum, in the...

John Hill

male, deceased (1775)
From Peterborough, The Vegetable System, London Advertiser, British Magazine, Literary Gazette, Henry Woodward…epigram
John Hill (c. 1716 - November 21, 1775), called from his Swedish honours, "Sir" John Hill, English author, son of the Rev. Theophilus Hill, is said...
Alan Perlis

Alan Perlis

male, deceased (1990)
national academy of engineering, Project Whirlwind, Yale University faculty, purdue university, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, epigram
Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and...