"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 I-VI; Volume II, Books VII-VIII; Volume III, Book
IX; Volume IV, Books X-XII; Volume V, Books XIII-XVI.
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