Christodorus, of Coptos in Egypt, epic poet, flourished during the reign of Anastasius I (491-518). The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. ... Flavius Anastasius. ...

According to Suidas, he was the author of IIIvrpta, accounts of the foundation of various cities; Au&axa, the mythical history of Lydia; Icavpuda, the conquest of Isauria by Anastasius; three books of epigrams; and many other works. Suda (Σουδα or alternatively Suidas) is the name of a massive medieval lexicon, not an author as was formerly supposed. ... Lydia was an ancient kingdom of Asia Minor, known to Homer as Mæonia. ... Isauria, in ancient geography, is a district in the interior of South Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering much of what is now south-central Turkey. ... An epigram is a short poem with a clever twist at the end or a concise and witty statement. ...

In addition to two epigrams (Anthol. Pal. vii. 697, 698) we possess a description of eighty statues of gods, heroes and famous men and women in the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at Constantinople. This Ee paver, consisting of 416 hexameters, forms the second book of the Palatine Anthology. Map of Constantinople. ... Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad. ...

The writer's chief models are Homer and Nonnus, whom he follows closely in the structure of his hexameters. Opinions are divided as to the merits of the work. Some critics regard it as of great importance for the history of art and a model of description; others consider it valueless, alike from the historical, mythological and archaeological points of view. Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... Nonnus, Greek epic poet, a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid, probably lived at the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th century AD. His principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in forty-eight books, the main subject of which is the expedition of...

See F Baumgarten, De Christodoro poets Theban (1881), and his article in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencycdopädie, iii. 2 (1899); W Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898). Wilhelm von Christ (August 2, 1831 - 1906), German classical scholar, was born in Geisenheim in Hesse-Nassau. ...

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