the Greek Anthology comes from two manuscripts, the Palatine Anthology of the 10th century and the Anthology of Planudes (or Planudean Anthology) of the...
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known as the Greek Anthology. Florilegium, a Latin derivative for a collection of flowers, was used in medieval Europe for an anthology of Latin proverbs...
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poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology. Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower...
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Epigrams (Plato) (section The Greek Anthology)
Twenty-nine epigrams are attributed to Plato, mostly in the Greek Anthology. These are short poems suitable for dedicatory purposes written in the form...
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knowledge of ancient Greek epigrams is largely based on works surviving in multi-author anthologies. The earliest known dateable anthology of epigrams is the...
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The Palatine Anthology (or Anthologia Palatina), sometimes abbreviated AP, is the collection of Greek poems and epigrams discovered in 1606 in the Palatine...
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Jaywalkers Peter Jay (born 1945), poet, translator of the Greek Anthology and other ancient Greek literature, founder in 1968 of independent UK poetry publishing...
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largest extant collection of Antique Greek riddles is Book 14 of the Greek Anthology, as preserved in Codex Parisianus suppl. Graecus 384, which contains...
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
the sun himself has never looked upon its equal outside Olympus. — Greek Anthology IX.58 Another ancient writer, who, perhaps dubiously, identified himself...
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to the Greek Anthology, a collection of classical period epigrams, to which Spoon River Anthology is stylistically similar. Spoon River Anthology originally...
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