Nikandre of Naxos
Greek artist
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contribution to epigraphy
- In epigraphy: Classical Greece
…verse, such as that by Nikandre of Naxos on a 7th-century-bce statue of Artemis at Delos, a kind of propitiatory offering to the maiden goddess on the occasion of marriage. Similar hexametric or elegiac texts are found as epitaphs, especially for those who perished in war or at sea.
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