Antipater of

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: Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Σιδώνιος, ''Antipatros ho Sidonios'') was an ancient

poet of the second half of the 2nd century BC.

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mentions him living at Rome in the time of Crassus and Quintus Lutatius Catulus, and calls him a brilliant

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mist, sometimes too fond of imitation. His poems, about 75 of which are preserved in the '' Greek Anthology'', include evocations of art and literature and epitaphs, but there appears to be confusion in the ''Anthology'' between Antipater of Sidon and Antipater of Thessalonica, who lived in the following century. One of his poems gives one of the earliest known lists of the

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I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and the Colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the high pyramids, and the vast
tomb of Mausolus The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus ( grc, Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; tr, Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an ...
; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, "Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand."''Anth. Pal.'' ix. 58.

References

Sources

*Jean-Claude Polet, ''Patrimoine littéraire européen'', v. II, De Boeck Université, 1992. *Rolf Toman, Barbara Borngasser, and Achim Bednorz, "History of Architecture: From Classic to Contemporary". New York: Parragon, .d.

External links

Antipater of Sidon: translation of all surviving epigrams
at ''attalus.org''; adapted from W.R.Paton (1916–18) Ancient Greek poets Ancient Greek elegiac poets 2nd-century BC poets Hellenistic-era people Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from Sidon {{Greece-poet-stub