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Stephanos

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compiled by Meleager

In Meleager
…and the whole was entitled Stephanos (“Garland”). Meleager’s own poems are neatly constructed, and they treat erotic themes with cleverness; they had a considerable influence on the epigrams written during the time of the Roman Empire. He lived in Tyre and, in old age, on the Aegean island of Cos.
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poetry of Anyte

In Anyte
…antiquity that in the well-known Stephanos (“Garland”), a collection compiled by Meleager (early 1st century), the “lilies of Anyte” are the first poems to be entwined in the “wreath of poets.” Anyte’s fame persisted, and Antipater of Thessalonica, writing during the reign of Augustus (27 bc–ad 14), called her “a…
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