Collections of Greek inscriptions initially started from the 3rd century BC and continued with collections of

epigram An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two mille ...

s and short poems, which after the 1st century AD were called Anthologies. These anthologies of Greek epigrams were enlarged with additions of earlier collections, culminating in what is called today "

Greek Anthology The ''Greek Anthology'' ( la, Anthologia Graeca) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature. Most of the material of the ''Greek Anthology'' comes from two manuscripts, the ''Pa ...

". These include: *Attic inscriptions by

Philochorus Philochorus of Athens (; grc, Φιλόχορος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 340 BC – c. 261 BC), was a Greek historian and Atthidographer of the third century BC, and a member of a priestly family. He was a seer and interpreter of signs, and a ...

, 3rd century BC *

Soros George Soros ( name written in eastern order), (born György Schwartz, August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. , he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated mo ...

, 3rd century BC, collection in which there were epigrams of Posidippus of PellaThe New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book
Kathryn J. Gutzwiller, Oxford University Press, 2005, σελ. 7, , 9780199267811 * Epigrammata, 3rd century BC, collection of epigrams, attributed to Posidippus, of the same time as of Soros, but written later * On the inscriptions to be found in cities, of

Polemon of Athens Polemon of Athens ( grc-gre, Πολέμων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος, fl. 2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher and geographer. Of Athenian citizenship, he was most widely known as Polemon of Athens, but he was born either in Ilium, ...

, 2nd century BC *About the offering in Delphi (), of Alcetas the traveller *, of Menestor * Theban Epigrams () of Aristodemus of Thebes * Peri epigrammaton (, "About epigrams") of Neoptolemus of Paros * Garland of Meleagros (Στέφανος τοῦ Μελεάγρου), of

Meleager of Gadara Meleager of Gadara ( grc-gre, Μελέαγρος ; fl. 1st century BC) was a poet and collector of epigrams. He wrote some satire, satirical prose, now lost, and some sensual poetry, of which 134 epigrams survive. Life Meleager was the son of E ...

, about 1st century AD. *

Garland of Philippus A garland is a decorative braid, knot or wreath of flowers, leaves, or other material. Garlands can be worn on the head or around the neck, hung on an inanimate object, or laid in a place of cultural or religious importance. Etymology From the ...

(Στέφανος τοῦ Φιλίππου τοῦ Θεσσαλονικέως), by

Philippus of Thessalonica Philippus may refer to: * Philippus (cognomen), a name accustomed with the Roman gens ''Marcia'' * Philippus (character), a fictional character in DC Comics People * Flavius Philippus, a Roman Empire official under Emperor Constantius II c. 350 ...

, mid-1st century AD. * Sylloge Rufiniana, supposed collection of epigrams of Rufinus found in Book V of the Palatine Anthology (or together with epigrams from other poets)Chapter Three: Anthologies and Anthologists
Marc D. Lauxtermann, in Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and Contexts volume One, page 104-105, 2003 * Anthologion of epigrams about rivers, lakes, cliffs, mountains and mountaintops (),

Diogenianus Diogenianus ( el, Διογενειανός, Διογενιανός) was a Greek grammarian from Heraclea in Pontus (or in Caria) who flourished during the reign of Hadrian. He was the author of an alphabetical lexicon, chiefly of poetical words, ...

* Musa Puerilis (), anthology of

Straton of Sardis Straton of Sardis ( grc-gre, Στράτων; better known under his Latin name Strato) was a Greek poet and anthologist from the Lydian city of Sardis. Life Straton is thought by some scholars to have lived during the time of Hadrian, based o ...

, 2nd century, with pederastic content * Pammetros () of

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...

, 3rd century *The Sylloge of Palladas, 6th century collection of epigrams and epic fragments * Cycle of New Epigrams (), also known as "Cycle of Agathias" by

Agathias Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus ( grc-gre, Ἀγαθίας σχολαστικός; Martindale, Jones & Morris (1992), pp. 23–25582/594), of Myrina (Mysia), an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor (Turkey), was a Greek poet and the principal histo ...

, 6th century *

Anacreontea ''Anacreontea'' ( grc-gre, Ἀνακρεόντεια) is the title given to a collection of some sixty Greek poems on the topics of wine, beauty, erotic love, and the worship of Dionysus. The corpus date to between the 1st century BC and the 6th c ...

, a collection originally attributed pseudepigraphically to Anacreon preserved in

Anthologia Palatina The ''Palatine Anthology'' (or ''Anthologia Palatina''), sometimes abbreviated ''AP'', is the collection of Greek poems and epigrams discovered in 1606 in the Palatine Library in Heidelberg. It is based on the lost collection of Constantinus Cep ...

(poems ranging from the 1st century BC to the 6th century AD) * Sylloge Parisina * Sylloge Euphemiana (about 890) * Syllogae minores, a series of smaller collections from various sources, among which are Sylloge Parisina and Sylloge Euphemiana already mentioned above *'' Anthology of Cephalas'' – compiled by

Constantine Cephalas Constantine most often refers to: * Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337, also known as Constantine I * Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria Constantine may also refer to: People * Constantine (name), a masculine given na ...

in the last decades of the ninth century; most important sources include the Garlands of Meleager and Philip, the Anthology of Diogenian, the Sylloge of Pallada and the Cycle of Agathias *''

Palatine Anthology The ''Palatine Anthology'' (or ''Anthologia Palatina''), sometimes abbreviated ''AP'', is the collection of Greek poems and epigrams discovered in 1606 in the Palatine Library in Heidelberg. It is based on the lost collection of Constantinus Ceph ...

'' (''Anthologia Palatina'') – Byzantine anthology completed after 944, mostly a copy of Cephalas' anthology alongside other collections of epigrams and some longer poems. *''

Anthology of Planudes The ''Anthology of Planudes'' (also called ''Planudean Anthology'', in Latin ''Anthologia Planudea'' or sometimes in Greek ''Ἀνθολογία διαφόρων ἐπιγραμμάτων'' ("Anthology of various epigrams"), from the first line of ...

'' (''Anthologia Graeca Planudea'')

Maximus Planudes Maximus Planudes ( grc-gre, Μάξιμος Πλανούδης, ''Máximos Planoúdēs''; ) was a Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, mathematician, grammarian and theologian at Constantinople. Through his translations from La ...

, 1299 (based mainly on apographon or on apographa of the Anthology of Cephalas) *''

'' (''Anthologia Graeca''): Term currently used for the collection of epigrams and poems of the Palatine and the Planudean Anthologies, as well as from other sources''The Greek anthology : from Meleager to Planudes''
/ Alan Cameron, Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993,

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