Appel, Włodzimierz2013-03-192013-03-192008Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2008, nr XVIII, s. 23-28978-83-232-0000-00302-7384http://hdl.handle.net/10593/5533This short article aims at drawing attention to the Gelegenheitsdichtungen (occasional poetry) which, directly or indirectly, are identifed with epigrams in the preserved texts of Homer’s life. In this context it seems interesting that Homer’s epitaph, composed and inscribed in hexameters, is elegeion not epigramma.plLives of HomerOccasional poetryEpigram and elegyArtykuł