The Greek Anthology, volume I, II

With an english translation by W. R. Paton.

Volume I :

• Book 1 : Christian Epigrams
• Book 2 : Christodorus of Thebes in Egypt.
• Book 3 : The Cyzicene Epigrams.
• Book 4 : The Proems of the Different Anthologies.
• Book 5 : The Amatory Epigrams.
• Book 6 : The Dedicatory Epigrams.

Volume II :

• Book 7 : Sepulchral Epigrams
• Book 8 : The Epigrams of St. Gregory the Theologian.

The Greek Anthology (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 Stephanus—wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century CE), a third by Diogenianus (2nd century), and much later a fourth, called the Circle, 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's compilation.