The Greek anthology / translated by W.R. Paton.

The Greek anthology / translated by W.R. Paton.

[New edition] / revised by Michael A. Tueller.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014-

volumes ; 17 cm

Loeb classical library ; LCL 67

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.

Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages. introduction and notes in English.

A new edition of W.R. Paton's translation, which was originally published in 1916-1918. "There is much here that was not found in Paton's edition, including lemmata, a brief apparatus, and more frequent notes."--Preface, volume 1.

Includes bibliographical references.

[volume 1]. Books 1-5. Book I, Christian epigrams ; Book II, Description of the statues in the Gymnasium of Zeuxippus ; Book III, Epigrams in the Temple of Apollonis at Cyzicus ; Book IV, Prefaces to the various anthologies ; Book V, Erotic epigrams.

Greek anthology. Greek (Paton and Tueller)
Greek anthology. English (Paton and Tueller)

Loeb classical library ; 67.

United States -- Massachusetts.

PA3611.A2 A6 2014

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