# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonidas-of-tarentum
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:43:35.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonidas-of-tarentum"
name: "Leonidas of Tarentum"
slug: "leonidas-of-tarentum"
description: "Leonidas of Tarentum was an epigrammatist and lyric poet. He lived in Italy in the third century B.C. at Tarentum, on the coast of Apulia. Over a hundred of his epigrams are present in the Greek Anthology compiled in the 10th and 14th centuries. Most of his poems are dedicatory or sepulchral."
tagline: "Ancient Greek poet"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Frammento_di_affresco_con_epigramma_di_Leonida_di_Taranto%2C_Suasa.jpg/330px-Frammento_di_affresco_con_epigramma_di_Leonida_di_Taranto%2C_Suasa.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-320"
deathDate: "-260"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.015912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Леонид Тарентский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump