An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. Derived from the Greek:ἐπίγραμμαepigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein "to write on, to inscribe", this literary device has been employed for over two millennia.
The presence of wit or sarcasm tends to distinguish non-poetic epigrams from aphorisms and adages, which may lack them.
Ancient Greek
The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries–including statues of athletes–and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passersby...". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams.
Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between "epigram" and "elegy" is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the characteristic types of literary epigram look back to inscriptional contexts, particularly funerary epigram, which in the Hellenistic era becomes a literary exercise. Other types look instead to the new performative context which epigram acquired at this time, even as it made the move from stone to papyrus: the Greek symposium. Many "sympotic" epigrams combine sympotic and funerary elements–they tell their readers (or listeners) to drink and live for today because life is short.
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 couplets.
Figures mentioned
Notable figures referenced in the epigrams include:
Dion, the political figure of Syracuse whose campaign is discussed at length in the Platonic Epistles, mourned in Epigram 3.
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Callimachus’ poem on Plato’s Phaedo, read in ancient Greek (epigram 23, the suicide of Cleombrotus)
Cleombrotus, the subject of this epigram, was a disciple of Socrates. In the Phaedo, a Socratic dialogue, Plato argues that the soul lives happily after death; and Cleombrotus, affected by the beauty of its ideas, is said to have been inspired to leap from a high wall into the sea. This suicide is used by Callimachus, in part, to illustrate the overwhelming beauty of Plato’s work.
It has been observed that the word “ἓν” (here translated “single”) is significant. One reason why, is because it may imply that Cleombrotus was not a careful student of Plato; since he was actuated by, and perhaps, even, had only read, "a single work" of his. In both the Phaedo itself and another work, Plato argues that suicide, in all but the most extreme circumstances, is morally wrong; so that Cleombrotus was...
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Cleombrotus, the subject of this epigram, was a disciple of Socrates. In the Phaedo, a Socratic dialogue, Plato argues that the soul lives happily after death; ...
Cleombrotus, the subject of this epigram, was a disciple of Socrates. In the Phaedo, a Socratic dialogue, Plato argues that the soul lives happily after death; and Cleombrotus, affected by the beauty of its ideas, is said to have been inspired to leap from a high wall into the sea. This suicide is used by Callimachus, in part, to illustrate the overwhelming beauty of Plato’s work.
It has been observed that the word “ἓν” (here translated “single”) is significant. One reason why, is because it may imply that Cleombrotus was not a careful student of Plato; since he was actuated by, and perhaps, even, had only read, "a single work" of his. In both the Phaedo itself and another work, Plato argues that suicide, in all but the most extreme circumstances, is morally wrong; so that Cleombrotus was premature to do as he did. This epigram may also be a warning, then, against the danger of drinking too shallowly from the Pierian spring.
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My translation is free to use under CC-BY-4.0. Transcript:
"Farewell, sun!" said Cleombrotus of Ambracia, and leapt from a high wall into Hades. Although he had not experienced any evil worthy of death; but had read a single work by Plato: "On the Soul."
Εἴπας ἥλιε χαῖρε Κλεόμβροτος Ὡμβρακιώτης
ἥλατ᾿ ἀφ᾿ ὑψηλοῦ τείχεος εἰς Ἀΐδην,
ἄξιον οὐδὲν ἰδὼν θανάτου κακόν, ἀλλὰ Πλάτωνος
ἓν τὸ περὶ ψυχῆς γράμμ᾿ ἀναλεξάμενος.
Cleombrotus, the subject of this epigram, was a disciple of Socrates. In the Phaedo, a Socratic dialogue, Plato argues that the soul lives happily after death; and Cleombrotus, affected by the beauty of its ideas, is said to have been inspired to leap from a high wall into the sea. This suicide is used by Callimachus, in part, to illustrate the overwhelming beauty of Plato’s work.
It has been observed that the word “ἓν” (here translated “single”) is significant. One reason why, is because it may imply that Cleombrotus was not a careful student of Plato; since he was actuated by, and perhaps, even, had only read, "a single work" of his. In both the Phaedo itself and another work, Plato argues that suicide, in all but the most extreme circumstances, is morally wrong; so that Cleombrotus was premature to do as he did. This epigram may also be a warning, then, against the danger of drinking too shallowly from the Pierian spring.
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My translation is free to use under CC-BY-4.0. Transcript:
"Farewell, sun!" said Cleombrotus of Ambracia, and leapt from a high wall into Hades. Although he had not experienced any evil worthy of death; but had read a single work by Plato: "On the Soul."
Εἴπας ἥλιε χαῖρε Κλεόμβροτος Ὡμβρακιώτης
ἥλατ᾿ ἀφ᾿ ὑψηλοῦ τείχεος εἰς Ἀΐδην,
ἄξιον οὐδὲν ἰδὼν θανάτου κακόν, ἀλλὰ Πλάτωνος
ἓν τὸ περὶ ψυχῆς γράμμ᾿ ἀναλεξάμενος.
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An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. Derived from the Greek:ἐπίγραμμαepigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein "to write on, to inscribe", this literary device has been employed for over two millennia.
The presence of wit or sarcasm tends to distinguish non-poetic epigrams from aphorisms and adages, which may lack them.
Ancient Greek
The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries–including statues of athletes–and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passersby...". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams.
Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between "epigram" and "elegy" is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the characteristic types of literary epigram look back to inscriptional contexts, particularly funerary epigram, which in the Hellenistic era becomes a literary exercise. Other types look instead to the new performative context which epigram acquired at this time, even as it made the move from stone to papyrus: the Greek symposium. Many "sympotic" epigrams combine sympotic and funerary elements–they tell their readers (or listeners) to drink and live for today because life is short.
Cleombrotus, the subject of this epigram, was a disciple of Socrates. In the Phaedo, a Socratic dialogue, Plato argues that the soul lives happily after death; and Cleombrotus, affected by the beauty of its ideas, is said to have been inspired to leap from a high wall into the sea. This suicide is used by Callimachus, in part, to illustrate the overwhelming beauty of Plato’s work.
It has been observed that the word “ἓν” (here translated “single”) is significant. One reason why, is because it may imply that Cleombrotus was not a careful student of Plato; since he was actuated by, and perhaps, even, had only read, "a single work" of his. In both the Phaedo itself and another work, Plato argues that suicide, in all but the most extreme circumstances, is morally wrong; so that Cleombrotus was premature to do as he did. This epigram may also be a warning, then, against the danger of drinking too shallowly from the Pierian spring.
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My translation is free to use under CC-BY-4.0. Transcript:
"Farewell, sun!" said Cleombrotus of Ambracia, and leapt from a high wall into Hades. Although he had not experienced any evil worthy of death; but had read a single work by Plato: "On the Soul."
Εἴπας ἥλιε χαῖρε Κλεόμβροτος Ὡμβρακιώτης
ἥλατ᾿ ἀφ᾿ ὑψηλοῦ τείχεος εἰς Ἀΐδην,
ἄξιον οὐδὲν ἰδὼν θανάτου κακόν, ἀλλὰ Πλάτωνος
ἓν τὸ περὶ ψυχῆς γράμμ᾿ ἀναλεξάμενος.
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The editor for this volume is John M. Cooper, and it contains translations from various contemporary scholars.
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