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The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called 'Stephanus', wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a third by Diogenianus (2nd century), and much later a fourth, called the 'Circle', by Agathias of Myrina. These (lost) and others (also lost) were partly incorporated, arranged according to contents, by Constantinus Cephalas (early 10th century?) into fifteen books now preserved in a single manuscript of the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. The grand collection was rearranged and revised by the monk Maximus Planudes (14th century) who also added epigrams lost 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, Problems, Riddles, and Oracles; XV, Miscellanies. Book XVI is the Planudean Appendix: Epigrams on works of art. Outstanding among the poets are Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius. The Loeb Classical Library edition is in five volumes. Volume I contains Books IâVI; Volume II, Books VIIâVIII; Volume III, Book IX; Volume IV, Books XâXII; Volume V, Books XIIIâXVI.
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9780674990944 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1918, cover price $26.00
9780674990951 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1918, cover price $26.00
9780674990753 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1917, cover price $26.00
9780674990937 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1917, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers.
9780674990746 | Loeb Classical Library, May 1, 1916, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers.
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9783110081718 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, June 1, 1982, cover price $321.00
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9780674991576 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $26.00
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9780715615638 | Duckbacks, July 1, 1983, cover price $45.00
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9780674991583 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $26.00
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9780674995253 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $26.00
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9780674995086 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $26.00
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9780674995598 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $26.00
Product Description: This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century A.D. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521411554 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $88.99 | About this edition: This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century A.
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9780521423137 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $54.99
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9780892366095 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, November 30, 2000, cover price $21.95
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9783110185379 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, November 30, 2005, cover price $133.00
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9781937693336 | Small Pr Distribution, April 1, 2013, cover price $17.00
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9780674996885 | Bilingual edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 20, 2014), cover price $26.00
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