{"product_id":"greek-anthology-volume-v","title":"Greek Anthology, Volume V","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gathering of poetic blossoms.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greek Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e  (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 \u003ci\u003eStephanus\u003c\/i\u003e,  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 \u003ci\u003eCircle\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. The grand collection  was rearranged and revised by the monk Maximus Planudes (14th century)  who also added epigrams lost from Cephalas’ compilation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutstanding among the poets are Meleager, Antipater of Sidon, Crinagoras, Palladas, Agathias, Paulus Silentiarius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241620820312,"sku":"9780674990951","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674990951_c78fdef4-bab1-4831-9513-3adbf61eff77.jpg?v=1779510658","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/greek-anthology-volume-v","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}