Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014-

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Additional Authors

• Paton, W. R. (William Roger), 1857-1921
• Tueller, Michael A.

Description

2 volumes; 17 cm.

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 BC), was added another Garland, by Philip of Thessalonica (mid-first century AD), and then a Cycle by Agathias of Myrina (AD 567/8). In about AD 900 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"--

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; LCL 67

Uniform Title

• Greek anthology. English & Greek
• Greek anthology. English (Paton and Tueller)
• Greek anthology. Greek (Tueller)
• Loeb classical library 67.

Subject

• Greek anthology
• Greek anthology
• Greek poetry
• Greek poetry > Translations into English
• Epigrams, Greek
• Epigrams, Greek > Translations into English
• Epigrams, Greek > History and criticism
• Poésie grecque
• Épigrammes grecques
• Épigrammes grecques > Histoire et critique
• Epigrams, Greek
• Greek poetry

Genre/Form

• Epigrams, Greek.
• Epigrams, Greek – Translations into English.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Translations
• Greek poetry

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Books 1-5

ISBN

• 9780674996885
• 0674996887

LCCN

2014932481

OCLC

875999965

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library