Leonida di Alessandria, >Epigrammi

The volume contains the first modern commentary entirely dedicated to the epigrams of Leonidas of Alexandria, a 1^st century AD poet affiliated with the imperial court. Leonidas’ claim to fame lies with his composition of the so-called isopsephic distichs, a peculiar example of technopaegnion.

The book includes an exhaustive introduction, tracing the figure of the author and discussing the transmission of the text as well as the treatment of the isopsephic method by modern scholars. Furtherm...