Tomb Of Evrion

In this tomb—ornately designed, the whole of syenite stone, covered by so many violets, so many lilies— lies handsome Evrion, an Alexandrian, twenty-five years old. On his father's side, he was of old Macedonian stock, on his mother's side, descended from a line of magistrates. He studied philosophy with Aristokleitos, rhetoric with Paros, and at Thebes the sacred scriptures. He wrote a history of the province of Arsinoites. That at least will survive. But we've lost what was really precious: his form— like a vision of Apollo.