Love, Worship and Death: Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology

by Rennell Rodd

Rintho founded a new school of serio-comic drama about 300 B.C. The ivy was sacred to Dionysus, in whose worship the drama had its origin.

Note 8.

Also attributed to Meleager. The phrase, βάσκανος ἔσσ' Ἀΐδα, here quoted is from Erinna's lament for Baucis, one of the rare surviving lyrics of the Rhodian poetess.

Note 9.

The anonymous epigrams here inserted are probably not in their proper chronological places. But as they could not be definitely assigned to any date I have placed them between the two categories of B.C. and A.D.

Note 10.

There is a Latin version of this epigram on a tomb in the pavement of a church in Rome (S. Lorenzo in Panisperna).

Inveni portum, spes et fortuna valete,
Nil mihi vobiscum, ludite nunc alios.

Note 11.

Irus was the beggar of the Odyssey who ran messages for the suitors of Penelope. The obol referred to is the small coin placed between the lips of the dead to pay the toll to the ferryman of Hades.