Epigram
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An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or humorous satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα. This literary device has been practiced for over two mil
Robert Hayman's 1628 book Quodlibets devotes much of its text to epigrams.
Battle of Thermopylae
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The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BC at Thermopylae between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the c
Epigram
…tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries – including statues of athletes – and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passersby...". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period…
Leonidas at Thermopylae Jacques-Louis David, 1814
The Spartans throw Persian envoys into a well
Soldiers of the Achaemenid army of Xerxes at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae. Tomb of Xerxes, circa 480 BC, Naqsh-e Rustam. Top rank: Persian, Median, Elamite, Parthian, Arian, Bactrian, Sogdian, Chorasmian, Zarangian, Sattagydian, Gandharan, Hindush (Indians), Scythian. Bottom rank: Scythian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Arabian, Egyptian, Armenian, Cappadocian, Lydian, Ionian, Scythian, Thracian, Macedonian, Libyan, Ethiopian.