Epigrams by Euripides

The Epigrams are a collection of four short elegiac poems traditionally ascribed to the tragedian Euripides. Composed in the metre conventional for the form, these verses adopt the style of dedicatory or commemorative inscriptions, addressing themes such as the honoring of war dead and the presentation of a statue to the god Hermes. The work survives only fragmentarily, preserved not within the primary manuscript tradition of Euripides' plays but through later anthological and scholarly sources. The attribution to Euripides is widely considered doubtful; the poems are typically regarded as products of a later era, when anonymous literary epigrams were often assigned to celebrated classical authors to lend them prestige. Consequently, they are viewed as minor and spurious additions to the Euripidean corpus, of interest primarily for their place within the broader development of the Greek epigram.