Concept
Epigram
Overview
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or humorous satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, "inscription", from ἐπιγράφειν [epigráphein], "to write on, to inscribe"). This literary device has been practiced for over two millennia.
The presence of wit or sarcasm tends to distinguish non-poetic epigrams from aphorisms and adages, which typically do not show those qualities.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Epigram
- Hesiod
- Heraclitus
- Philodemus
- Sappho
- Ion of Chios
- Hipparchia of Maroneia
- Rudolph Goclenius
- Marcus Antonius Muretus
Related ideas
- George Eliot
- Ancient Greek
- Emily Dickinson
- John Milton
- Byzantine Empire
- North America
- Pompeii
- Victorian literature
- Classical antiquity
- Roman Empire
- Aphorism
- Satire
- William Shakespeare
- Bible
- Scottish people
- Hellenistic period
- Alexander Pope
- Catullus
- John Dryden
- Ancient Greece
- Juvenal
- Late antiquity
- Ancient Greek literature
- Meleager of Gadara
Place in the tradition
Part of Heraclitus.