Leonidas of Tarentum

Leonidas of Tarentum

Leonidas of Tarentum (Doric Greek _el. Λεονιδου) was an epigrammatist and lyric poet. He lived in the third century B.C. Leonidas lived in Tarentum, in the coast of Calabria, then Magna Graecia. Over a hundred of his epigrams are present in the Greek Anthology.


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