SOURCE: Cameron, Alan. “The Garlands of Melaeger and Philip.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 9, no. 3 (autumn 1968): 323-31.

In the following essay, Cameron considers the order in which Meleager collected his poems, and the headings he utilized in his Garland.

The principal sources used by Constantine Cephalas for the Anthology of which the greater part is preserved in the Palatine and Planudean Anthologies were the Garland of Meleager (put together in the last decade or so of the second century b.c.),¹ the Garland of Philip (some time probably not too long after a.d. 53)² and the Cycle of Agathias (ca. a.d. 567).³ Some of the material from these three major collections Cephalas broke up and rearranged, together with material from a variety of minor sources,⁴ but fortunately for us he was not energetic enough to carry out his reorganisation systematically throughout, and long stretches of up to 100 or...