By 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 often now not epigrammatic) through approximately three hundred composers. To the gathering (called 'Stephanus', wreath or garland) made and contributed to via Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) used to be extra one other by way of Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a 3rd by means of Diogenianus (2nd century), and lots more and plenty later a fourth, known as the 'Circle', by way of Agathias of Myrina. those (lost) and others (also misplaced) have been partially included, prepared in keeping with 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 was once 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. booklet XVI is the Planudean Appendix: Epigrams on works of art.
impressive one of the poets are Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius.
The Loeb Classical Library variation is in 5 volumes. quantity I includes Books I–VI; quantity II, Books VII–VIII; quantity III, e-book IX; quantity IV, Books X–XII; quantity V, Books XIII–XVI.
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