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The Greek Anthology, With an English Translation Note: Loeb Classical Library edition, in Greek and English; London: W. Heinemann; New York, G.P.
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The epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus; 9. Rhetorical and illustrative epigrams; Ethical pieces; Humorous and convivial; Strato's Musa Puerilis ; Metrical curiosities; Puzzles, enigmas, oracles; The epigrams on works of art, as already stated, are missing from the Codex Palatinus , and must be sought in an appendix of epigrams only occurring in the Planudean Anthology.

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Imitations in modern languages have been copious, actual translations less common. The German language admits of the preservation of the original metre, a circumstance exploited by Johann Gottfried Herder and Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs. Robert Bland , John Herman Merivale , and their associates — , produced efforts that are often diffuse.

Francis Wrangham 's — versions are more spirited; and John Sterling translated the inscriptions of Simonides. John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine —, collected and commented on the labours of these and other translators, including indifferent attempts of William Hay. In Henry Wellesley, principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford , published his Anthologia Polyglotta , a collection of the translations and imitations in all languages, with the original text.

In this appeared versions by Goldwin Smith and Merivale, which, with the other English renderings extant at the time, accompany the literal prose translation of the Public School Selections , executed by the Rev. George Burges for Bohn's Classical Library In Major R. Macgregor published an almost complete but mediocre translation of the Anthology.

Idylls and Epigrams , by Richard Garnett , reprinted in the Cameo series , includes about translations or imitations, with some original compositions in the same style. Two critical contributions to the subject are the Rev.

W. R. Paton's Greek Anthology (10 vols.)

James Davies's essay on Epigrams in the Quarterly Review vol. Symonds 's Studies of the Greek Poets ; 3rd ed. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Most; Salvatore Settis The Classical Tradition.

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Harvard University Press. Retrieved September 2, Anthologia Palatina, Planudea, ed. Beckby, Munich [—8]2 4 vols. Cougny, Paris D. Preview — The Greek Anthology Vol.


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The Greek Anthology Vol. This volume contains the Declamatory Epigrams in Greek and English translation.

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For the rest, it preserves a good deal that is of historical interest; it illustrates the continuity of Greek literature for almost 2, years, because the latest inclusions in it are, in language, style, and feeling, not too different from the earliest inclusions. The Anthology also had a persistent and considerable influence on later literature.

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