Teliambic Fragment Anonymous (Ἀνώνυμον Φραγμέντιον Τηλιαμβικόν)

Life No biographical information exists for the author of the Teliambic Fragment. The work is dated broadly to between the 1st and 5th centuries CE, placing its composition within the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods. The fragment is composed in the Koine dialect, consistent with Greek literary production of that era.

Works The sole known work is the Teliambic Fragment, a poetic text whose title derives from its metrical form. The work survives only in a fragmentary state [1].

Significance As an anonymous poetic fragment in a specific meter from Late Antiquity, it is of value for studies on the evolution of Greek metrical forms and the fragmentary literary record of the later Roman Empire. Its anonymous and fragmentary nature is typical of many texts from this period.

Sources 1. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman 2. ToposText (Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation): https://topostext.org/ 3. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics (Oxford University Press): https://oxfordre.com/classics/ 4. Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/ 5. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Stanford University): https://plato.stanford.edu/ 6. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://iep.utm.edu/ 7. World History Encyclopedia: https://www.worldhistory.org/ 8. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (via Perseus): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104