Epigrams (Plato)
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Eighteen Epigrams are attributed to Plato
, most of them considered spurious. These are short poems suitable for dedicatory purposes written in the form of elegiac couplet
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Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
, most of them considered spurious. These are short poems suitable for dedicatory purposes written in the form of elegiac couplet
Elegiac couplet
The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman poets, particularly Ovid, adopted the same form in Latin many years later...
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