By T.E. Page, W.R. Paton
The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the identify given to a set of approximately 4500 brief Greek poems (called epigrams yet frequently no longer epigrammatic) by means of approximately three hundred composers. To the gathering (called 'Stephanus', wreath or garland) made and contributed to by way of Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) was once further one other through Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a 3rd by means of Diogenianus (2nd century), and lots more and plenty later a fourth, referred to as the 'Circle', through Agathias of Myrina. those (lost) and others (also misplaced) have been in part included, prepared in response to contents, by way of Constantinus Cephalas (early tenth century?) into fifteen books now preserved in one manuscript of the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. The grand assortment used to be rearranged and revised through the monk Maximus Planudes (14th century) who additionally additional epigrams misplaced from Cephalas's compilation. The fifteen books of the Palatine Anthology are: I, Christian Epigrams; II, Descriptions of Statues; III, Inscriptions in a temple at Cyzicus; IV, Prefaces of Meleager, Philippus, and Agathias; V, Amatory Epigrams; VI, Dedicatory; VII, Sepulchral; VIII, Epigrams of St. Gregory; IX, Declamatory; X, Hortatory and Admonitory; XI, Convivial and Satirical; XII, Strato's 'Musa Puerilis'; XIII, Metrical curiosities; XIV, difficulties, Riddles, and Oracles; XV, Miscellanies. e-book XVI is the Planudean Appendix: Epigrams on artworks. extraordinary one of the poets are Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius. The Loeb Classical Library version is in 5 volumes. quantity I comprises Books I–VI; quantity II, Books VII–VIII; quantity III, ebook IX; quantity IV, Books X–XII; quantity V, Books XIII–XVI.
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