{"id":1124,"date":"2019-07-26T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/?page_id=1124"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:25:49","slug":"antipater-of-sidon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/?page_id=1124","title":{"rendered":"Antipater of Sidon, 2nd c. BCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"q-container\" align=\"center\"><div class=\"q-wide-margins\"> \r\n\r\n<p>Antipater of Sidon is one of several poets named Antipater in the Greek Anthology. Alive during much of the second century BCE, Antipater lived at the intersection of three worlds: Phoenician Sidon, the Hellenistic east, and the invading Romans. Indeed, his epigrams express a desire to cultivate the Greek culture of the past while responding to the reality of the now dominant Romans who are both conquerors and patrons. Of the 177 epigrams in the Greek Anthology authored by someone named Antipater, forty-six are specifically ascribed to Antipater of Sidon. The Sidonian\u2019s writing style favored long sentences with many adjectives and compounds, and he exercised his creativity by composing sophisticated variations on previous poets\u2019 short epigrams. In this poem, Antipater laments the sack of Corinth in 146 BCE\u2014without ever mentioning the Romans or their general Mummius\u2014while painting a moving picture of the deserted city and its inhabitants who were either killed or sold into slavery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p> Gutzwiller argues that through his use of variation and evocation of famous poets and others, Antipater should be seen as an interpreter of earlier Greek texts and culture. So it is not surprising that Antipater\u2019s poetry exhibits features of various dialects to add poetic coloring to his poetry. Most prominently, these two poems exhibit Doric features, such as \u1fb1 where Attic would use \u03b7 (e.g., \u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1 for \u03bc\u03ae\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1); and epic features, such as \u03bf\u03c5 for \u03bf (e.g., \u03bc\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 (7) for \u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9); and epic genitives (e.g., \u03c3\u03ad\u03bf (1) and \u03c3\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf (5) for \u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Gow, A. S. F., and D. L.\r\nPage, eds. <em>The Greek Anthology:\r\nHellenistic Epigrams<\/em>. 2 vols. Cambrisge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Gutzwiller, Kathryn. <em>Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in\r\nContext<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antipater of Sidon is one of several poets named Antipater in the Greek Anthology. Alive during much of the second century BCE, Antipater lived at the intersection of three worlds: Phoenician Sidon, the Hellenistic east, and the invading Romans. Indeed, his epigrams express a desire to cultivate the Greek culture of the past while responding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginingancientcorinth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}