By W. R. Paton
The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the identify given to a suite of approximately 4500 brief Greek poems (called epigrams yet often now not epigrammatic) by means of approximately three hundred composers. To the gathering (called 'Stephanus', wreath or garland) made and contributed to by means of Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) was once additional one other via Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a 3rd through Diogenianus (2nd century), and lots more and plenty later a fourth, referred to as the 'Circle', through Agathias of Myrina. those (lost) and others (also misplaced) have been partially integrated, prepared in line with contents, by means of Constantinus Cephalas (early tenth century?) into fifteen books now preserved in one manuscript of the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. The grand assortment was once rearranged and revised by way of the monk Maximus Planudes (14th century) who additionally extra epigrams misplaced 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, difficulties, Riddles, and Oracles; XV, Miscellanies. ebook XVI is the Planudean Appendix: Epigrams on works of art.
amazing one of the poets are Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius.
The Loeb Classical Library version is in 5 volumes. quantity I comprises Books I–VI; quantity II, Books VII–VIII; quantity III, ebook IX; quantity IV, Books X–XII; quantity V, Books XIII–XVI.
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And the : " Talk that twaddle to Ares. — ZOSIMUS OF THASOS On the Shield - of one Anaximenes Not only in combats and in the battle din do I protect the spirit of valiant Anaximenes but in the sea, too, when the waves broke up his ship, I was a ; shield to save him, clinging to me in swimming as if On sea and land alike I am his hope I were a plank. and stay, having saved my bold master from two different deaths. * PreKuinably in made of leather or tliis and the following epigrams a shield wicker is meant.
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