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grbs-1461	Dale, Alexander	Lyric Epigrams in Meleager’s Garland, the Anthologia Palatina, and the Anthologia Planudea	2010	21	.pdf	application/pdf	8077	470	71	Dale ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 50 (2010) 193–213 © 2010 Alexander Dale Lyric Epigrams in Meleager’s Garland, the Anthologia Palatina, and the Anthologia Planudea Alexander Dale ELEAGER’S GARLAND, it has often been suggested, contained, in addition to the many hundreds of elegiac epigrams that we can ascribe to that col- lection, a small but significant number of non-elegiac, and specifically lyric, epigrams that were transmitted through the centuries to end up in the Anthology of Constantine Cephalas, whence they found their way into the Palatine Anthology, the main source for our knowledge of Greek epigram from the Classical to Byzantine periods.1 In the following analysis I ar- gue that there is little if any evidence for the inclusion of non- elegiac epigrams in Meleager, a thesis which if accepted would have implications not only for the transmission of the text of the epigrams in question, but also for the issue of generic classi- fication and the formal features of epigram in the time leading 1 E.g. Cameron 13; E. Magnelli, “Meter and Diction: From Refinement to Mannerism,” in P. Bing and J. S. Bruss (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram (Leiden 2007) That being said, the cumulative weight of evidence strongly suggests that Meleager limited himself solely to elegiac epigrams, and that the few non-elegiac epigrams by Meleagrian authors that we do find in Anth.	cache/grbs-1461.pdf	txt/grbs-1461.txt