La malvagità dei Cappadoci. Uno stereotipo etnico nell’epigramma scoptico greco (AP 11,237, AP 11,238 e AP 11,436)

Among the (few) skoptic epigrams on ethnic stereotypes included in AP 11, and addressed against a variety of populations, three poems concern Cappadocians: AP 11,237, AP 11,238 and AP 11,436. Through an analysis of the content of the epigrams, and of the themes on which the satire is based, this paper aims to offer an approximate terminus post quem for their date of composition, which involves – at least in the case of AP 11,237 and AP 11,238 – rejecting the authenticity of the authorial lemmata that accompany these poems in the Anthology.