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Some Palladian Presences

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Anthologia Graeca Planudea = Anthologia diafo ron epigrammato n ed. Ianos Laskaris, Firenze: Laurentius de Alopa (1494) " Among the greater Greek classics, only Homer and Isocrates were in print before the Anthology; and during the sixteenth century few of the classics were more often re- edited" (James Hutton, The Greek Anthology in Italy to the Year 1800 (Ithaca, New York, 1935), p. 38.

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Just a few poets soon inspired by or using Palladas: Lope di Vega Ronsard Olivier de Magny John Donne, For than kisses, letters mingle Soules For thus friends absent speak (Palladas 9.401) Herrick

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Ezra Pound. Not only translates some Palladas, but see Horace, Arion 9 (1970) 178-87: His jibes at old women are like petty personal fusses lacking the charm of Palladas' impartial pessimism or the artistic aloofness, the Epicurean and really godlike impersonality of Catullus..

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Palladas as Poets poet: See e.g. John Frederick Nims (1913-1999) Palladas bios/skene epigram is pivotal to his postwar Masque of Blackness

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The streets and rooms they moved in rang unreal Since not yet real to the child; say someone's dream Strange as drowned cities where the cursive eel Flashes in alleys. A curtain-time scene: Whether they shifted vases, turned a page All seemed last-minute touches on a stage. The stage and a man's life-long before Avon Cynical Palladas saw we "play a part." Though of that scenery or the gapes it gave on Hard to say which is model and which art. Down the steep aisles of a murky vast Theater, all seats empty, he and she Go groping backstage; from a passionate past Glitter the lurid flats of cloud and sea.

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Palladas and prose fiction Jonathan Swift in Gullivers Travelsespecially in some of the more arcane proper names Prosper Mrimes novella Carmen (source of the opera), has the epigraph (in Greek): , , . Thomas Love Peacocks Lucianic, comic Gryll Grange (1861), uses the bios/skene epigram as its epigraph.

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Palladas and the Philosophers Neil Cooper, Moral Nihilism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74 (1973-4) 75-90: I want in this paper to consider the view which may be called 'Moral Nihilism' or 'Moral Indifferentism', according to which nothing matters morally. Some such view may accompany cynicism or radical despair. The late Greek poet Palladas expresses it [he goes on to quote several epigrams]

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Rites-de-passage, pedagogical Palladas

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Learned FOOTNOTE PALLADAS e.g. The works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus and Musus. Translated from the original Greek. By Francis Fawkes, M.A. London, MDDCLXXXIX [1789]

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Anthologisable Palladas who in every era has sounded modern enough to be interleaved with contemporary epigrams and other short poems

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Those were the dayswhen Latin quantities were discussed without English translation in The Times GRAECULUS. "To The Editor Of The Times." Times [London, England] 17 Jan. 1894: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 31 Aug. 2014.

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D. CACLAMANOS. "The New Type." Times [Lond on, England] 10 Oct. 1932: 10. By the year after, English translation of Palladas is provided

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Cavafys Palladian aspects His own relationship with Alexandria (cf. his fascination with Herodas mimes when they appeared) His fascination with the pagan perspective on the early Christians His urban settings (also preferred by Harrison, who sees this as distinguishing him from Ted Hughes, the other late 20 th -century Yorkshire poet. His mournful, cynical and non-optimistic tone His lapidary textures His immersion with and constant allusion to a dense literary heritage