Leonidas of Tarentum (290 BC-220 BC)

Leonidas of Tarentum
Leonidas of Tarentum

Leonidas of Tarentum was an epigrammatist and lyric poet. He lived in Italy in the third century B.C. at Tarentum, on the coast of Apulia. Over a hundred of his epigrams are present in the Greek Anthology compiled in the 10th and 14th centuries. Most of his poems are dedicatory or sepulchral.

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