Monumento a Nosside

A bronze figure of Nosside stands on a granite pedestal on the seafront of modern Locri. The monument honours the Hellenistic poet from ancient Lokroi Epizephyroi, whose surviving epigrams preserve a rare literary voice from the Greek world.

Why it matters

Nosside was a Greek poet from Locri Epizefiri who wrote in the early third century BC. Twelve of her epigrams survive in the Palatine Anthology, preserving poems on love and friendship. Her monument links the modern city with the ancient Greek community whose remains lie inland.

What to notice

The bronze figure rises from a granite base beside the Ionian seafront. The monument was sculpted by Tony Custureri and inaugurated in the presence of the classical scholar Marcello Gigante. Its inscriptions commemorate the poet and her city.

Context and history

Nosside belonged to the Hellenistic literary culture of Lokroi Epizephyroi, a colony founded by settlers from mainland Locris in the seventh century BC. Her poems were included by Meleager in the Garland, an anthology that helped preserve them for later readers. The monument's late-twentieth-century dedication makes her ancient work part of Locri's modern civic memory.