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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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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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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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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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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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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Adonis (redirect from Greek god adonis)
In Greek mythology, Adonis (Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized: Adōnis; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍, romanized: Adón) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite...
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Straton of Sardis (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
Cephalas compiled pieces of several Greek anthologies, including The Boyish Muse, to make a comprehensive collection of Greek epigrams. Since there is no other...
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demigods [...]. Alden, John B. (1883) The Greek Anthology, pp. 160–162. Kerenyi, Karl, 1959. The Heroes of the Greeks (London: Thames and Hudson) p. 75. Shapiro...
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Anyte (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
life, but twenty-four epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and one is quoted by Julius Pollux; nineteen of these are generally...
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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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Battle of the 300 Champions (category Greece articles missing geocoordinate data)
"SOL Search". www.cs.uky.edu. "Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 430". www.perseus.tufts.edu. "Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 431"...
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Maximus Planudes (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Maximus Planudes (‹See Tfd›Greek: Μάξιμος Πλανούδης, Máximos Planoúdēs; c. 1260 – c. 1305) was a Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator...
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Antipater of Sidon (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
Antipater of Sidon (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Σιδώνιος, Antipatros ho Sidonios) was an ancient Greek poet of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Cicero mentions him...
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Pieter Burmann the Younger (1713 – 1778). While the Greek Anthology was first compiled by the ancient Greek poet, Meleager of Gadara in the first century BC...
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would serve the same purpose. The other was a two-line epigram in the Greek Anthology, once ascribed to Plato. In this a man, intending to hang himself,...
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Plato (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, born c. 428-423 BC, died 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered...
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Hermaphroditus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)
In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus (/hərˌmæfrəˈdaɪtəs/ ; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαφρόδιτος, romanized: Hermaphróditos, [hermapʰróditos]) was a child of Aphrodite...
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Lethe (daughter of Eris) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
In Greek mythology, Lethe (Ancient Greek: Λήθη, lit. 'Forgetfulness, Oblivion') is the personification of forgetfulness and oblivion. According to Hesiod's...
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Adaeus (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
frequently refers. Poetry portal Greek Anthology The Ancient Library Archived October 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Poets of Greece Proper and Macedonia Archived...
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Anacreon (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; c. 573 – c. 495 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him...
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Rufinus (relative of Theodosius II), 5th century Rufinus (poet) of the Greek Anthology Rufinus (decretist), 12th-century canon lawyer Rufinus Widl (1731–1798)...
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Zenodotus (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
Zenodotus (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ζηνόδοτος) was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, Homeric scholar, and the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria....
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The Hare in flight (category Greek Anthology)
ancient Greek origin that refer to hare chasing, each of which also exemplifies a popular idiom or proverb. Three poems from the Greek Anthology refer to...
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(History of Animals); many of the Greek romances (Philostratus); poetical versions of much of the Greek Anthology; miscellaneous essays on classical...
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Timocreon (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
Timocreon of Ialysus in Rhodes (‹See Tfd›Greek: Τιμοκρέων, gen.: Τιμοκρέοντος) was a Greek lyric poet who flourished about 480 BC, at the time of the...
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Palladas (category Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology)
about Palladas has been deduced from his 151 epigrams preserved in the Greek Anthology (Anthologia graeca); another twenty-three appear in that collection...
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ancient Greek poets covers poets writing in the ancient Greek language, regardless of location or nationality of the poet. For a list of modern-day Greek poets...
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