The Greek anthology. Books 1-5 / translated by W. R. Paton ; revised by Michael A. Tueller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paton, W. R. (William Roger), 1857-1921, translator.

Tueller, Michael A., editor.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 67.

Loeb Classical Library ; 67

Standardized Title:

Greek anthology. English & Greek

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry.

Greek poetry--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

xli, 435 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, ©2014.

Language Note:

English and Greek parallel text; commentary in English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

5. Erotic Epigrams.

Notes:

"First published 1916"--title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780674996885

0674996887

OCLC:

876010443