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The Greek Anthology, Volume III: Book 9: The Declamatory Epigrams

The Greek Anthology, Volume III: Book 9: The Declamatory Epigrams

William Roger Paton
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"The Greek Anthology" is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems by about 300 composers. To the collection made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica , a third by Diogenianus , and much later a fourth, called the 'Circle', by Agathias of Myrina. These and others were partly incorporated, arranged according to contents, by Constantinus Cephalas 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 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.
Language
Multiple languages
Pages
464
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Release
January 01, 1917
ISBN
0674990935
ISBN 13
9780674990937

The Greek Anthology, Volume III: Book 9: The Declamatory Epigrams

William Roger Paton
4/5 ( ratings)
"The Greek Anthology" is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems by about 300 composers. To the collection made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica , a third by Diogenianus , and much later a fourth, called the 'Circle', by Agathias of Myrina. These and others were partly incorporated, arranged according to contents, by Constantinus Cephalas 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 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.
Language
Multiple languages
Pages
464
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Release
January 01, 1917
ISBN
0674990935
ISBN 13
9780674990937

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