The Loeb Classical Library: The Greek Anthology, Volume III : Book 9

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Greek Anthology, Volume III : Book 9The Greek Anthology (literally, Gathering of Flowers) is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called Stephanus, literally, wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BC) was added another by Philippus of Thessalonica (late 1st century AD), a third by Diogenianus (2nd century), and much later a fourth,

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both Pliny’s Natural History and Aelian’s On the Characteristics of Animals draw significantly on Aristotle’s biological work

and while it discusses textual and linguistic problems necessary for the understanding of Dio's text

the brilliant and bookish Elena

Kazantzakis follows the Macedonian army through triumphant campaigns across Persia

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which rotated honorary statues depending on whose rule they happened to fall under at the time

με την ελπίδα να σιγοκαίει κάπου στο βάθος

Όταν τα τριακοστά πέμπτα γενέθλια της καλύτερής της φίλης

a malicious skit on 'the deification of Claudius the Clod'

This edition offers a freshly constituted text making use of recently published papyri

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