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Greek epigrams and manuscripts of Damiano Guidotto of Venice

Greek epigrams and manuscripts of Damiano Guidotto of Venice

The Poetics of Editing in Meleager's Garland

About 100 B.C.E. Meleager of Gadara created an anthology of Greek epigrams, including over one hundred thirty of his own poems, mostly erotic in nature. This ZTEfa-voS or Garland, as it was called, eventually replaced the earlier poetry books from which it had been gathered and became the principal source for the transmission of Hellenistic literary epigrams.' Although Meleager's collection as a whole failed to survive the Byzantine era, much of its contents was excerpted by Constantine Cephalas in the early tenth century and placed in a compendium that formed the basis for our Palatine Anthology. Scholarly study of this Byzantine anthology has now dramatically improved our understanding of the structure and aesthetic arrangement of Meleager's Garland. The purpose of this paper is to show that the progress thus made on the anthology permits a new understanding of how Meleager's epigrammatic poetry functioned within its original context. The older view of Meleager as bombastic, sentimental, and unoriginal has been replaced in recent years with an appreciation of his ability to rework the earlier epigrammatic tradition into poems of striking originality.2 While Meleager's skill at the art of variation clearly bears a connection to his talents as the editor of an aesthetically arranged anthology, scholars have been content to study his epigrams as isolated poems or in relation to one or two epigrams he varies.3 In this paper I analyze a number of his poems from the perspective of their Garland sequence in order to show that their meaning as erotic verse, emanating from Meleager's poetic persona, is enhanced by a secondary layer of meaning, emanating from his editorial persona. When so read, Meleager's poetry takes on a dual reference to both erotic experience and the poetics of the collection.

Further Greek Epigrams. D. L. Page

<i>Further Greek Epigrams</i>. D. L. Page

(Anthologia) Graeca. Further Greek Epigrams: epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and other sources, not included in ‘Hellenistic Epigrams’ or ‘The Garland of Philip’. Ed. D. L. Page. Rev. R. D. Dawe and J. Diggle. Cambridge etc.: University Press. 1982 (1981). Pp. xiv + 598. £82.50.

(Anthologia) Graeca. Further Greek Epigrams: epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and other sources, not included in ‘Hellenistic Epigrams’ or ‘The Garland of Philip’. Ed. D. L. Page. Rev. R. D. Dawe and J. Diggle. Cambridge etc.: University Press. 1982 (1981). Pp. xiv + 598. £82.50.

Further Greek Epigrams - D. L. Page: Further Greek Epigrams: Epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and other sources, not included in ‘Hellenistic Epigrams’ or ‘The Garland of Philip’. Revised and prepared for publication by R. D. Dawe and J. Diggle. Pp. xiv + 598. Cambridge University Press, 1981. £82.50.

Further Greek Epigrams - D. L. Page: Further Greek Epigrams: Epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek Anthology and other sources, not included in ‘Hellenistic Epigrams’ or ‘The Garland of Philip’. Revised and prepared for publication by R. D. Dawe and J. Diggle. Pp. xiv + 598. Cambridge University Press, 1981. £82.50.

The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams

The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams

Relación entre el epigrama griego y latino tardoantiguo: algunas calas

En época tardoantigua, muchos autores latinos de epigramas encuentran su inspiración en modelos griegos. En el presente artículo se analizan las tendencias fundamentales y algunos ejemplos notables de esta relación en dos tipos de epigramas, los morales y los burlescos. Esta relación tiene dos fases: una primera, la selección de tipos y temas, y una segunda, la traducción o paráfrasis, en la que destacan como principales procedimientos de los autores latinos la adaptación literaria o cultural y la amplificación estilística y temática. Se señalan también las más importantes diferencias que sobre estos procedimientos se observan en las tres colecciones latinas estudiadas.

Some Translations - The Choephoroe of Aeschylus, translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Ewmenides, rendered into English verse by G. M. Cookson; The Birds of Aristophanes, as arranged for performance in the original Greek at Cambridge, translated by J. T. Sheppard; The Cyclops, freely translated and adapted for performance in English from the satyric drama

Some Translations - The Choephoroe of Aeschylus, translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray; <i>Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Ewmenides</i>, rendered into English verse by G. M. Cookson; <i>The Birds of Aristophanes</i>, as arranged for performance in the original Greek at Cambridge, translated by J. T. Sheppard; <i>The Cyclops</i>, freely translated and adapted for performance in English from the satyric drama

Modern Anthologia of Greek Epigrams

Journal Article Modern Anthologia of Greek Epigrams Get access T. C. T. C. 1Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s3-VI, Issue 147, 22 October 1864, Page 339, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s3-VI.147.339a Published: 22 October 1864