Posidippus (epigrammatic poet)

Posidippus was born in the city of Pella, capital of the kingdom of Macedon as the son of Admetos.

An inscription from Thermon in Aetolia records that he was honoured by the Aetolian League in about 264/3 BC.

Twenty-three of Posidippus' poems were included in the Greek Anthology, and several more were quoted in either part or whole by Athenaeus of Naucratis in his Deipnosophistae.

It contained 112 poems, two of which were previously known to have been written by Posidippus, which address subjects that include events of the court of the Ptolemaic dynasty, gemstones, and bird divination.

The poems of the Milan Papyrus are grouped into sections, and the papyrus largely preserves the section headers for the surviving poems: When Zeno was about to enjoy a peaceful sleep   after being blind for twenty-five years,he recovered his sight at the age of eighty, but [after glimpsing]   the sun twice only, he saw grievous Hades.