"The Greek Anthology" contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in
the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a
hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original
collection, called The Garland "("Stephanus") by its contributing
editor, Meleager of Gadara (first century BCE), was added another
Garland "by Philip of Thessalonica (mid-first century CE) and then
a "Cycle" by Agathias of Myrina (567/568 CE). In about 900 CE these
collections (now lost) and perhaps others (also lost, by Rufinus,
Diogenianus, Strato, and Palladas) were partly incorporated and
arranged into fifteen books according to subject by Constantine
Cephalas; most of his collection is preserved in a manuscript
called the Palatine Anthology." A second manuscript, the Planudean
Anthology" made by Maximus Planudes in 1301, contains additional
epigrams omitted by Cephalas. Outstanding among the poets are
Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, and
Paulus Silentiarius.
This Loeb edition of The"Greek Anthology "replaces the earlier
edition by W. R. Paton, with a Greek text and ample notes
reflecting current scholarship. Volume I contains the following
books: 1. Christian Epigrams; 2. Description of the Statues in the
Gymnasium of Zeuxippus; 3. Epigrams in the Temple of Apollonis at
Cyzicus; 4. Prefaces to Various Anthologies; and 5. Erotic
Epigrams.
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