person
Philitas
Poet and scholar of Cos ('the Coan poet'), a founding model of Alexandrian elegy admired by the Roman elegists.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §3.17 Coan poet
Philitas of Cos, founding master of Alexandrian elegy.
- The Cure for Love §23 man of Cos
Philitas of Cos, the learned elegiac poet and model for the Roman elegists; dangerous reading for the love-sick.
- Sorrows §1.6 Coan
Philitas of Cos, the scholar-poet who sang of his Bittis.