Greek Anthology: v. 4 (Loeb Classical Library), Anthology 9780674990944 HB^+

Name: Greek Anthology: v. 4 (Loeb Classical Library), Anthology 9780674990944 HB^+
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

The Greek Anthology, Volume IVBooks 1012\nAuthor(s): W. R. Paton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674990944, 978-0674990944\nSynopsis\nA gathering of poetic blossoms.\n\nThe Greek Anthology (literally, 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, literally, wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BC) was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century AD), 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..