Greek Anthology

Marble fragment from the Church of Hagios Polyeuktos, Constantinople, with a portion of the epigram recorded in the Greek Anthology (I.10). Image: Flickr.

The Greek Anthology is a conventional title given to a large collection of epigrams and other poetry on subjects and works of art from Classical Greece to medieval Byzantium. The collection was handed down from various poets, but the edition that is known to us today was largely assembled in tenth-century Constantinople by Constantine Cephalas. Maximus Planudes continued this anthologizing tradition with his own edition in the thirteenth century. The most accessible translation is published in the Loeb series [Kenyon proxy link]; older open access editions are provided below.