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Meleager of Gadara
Meleager of Gadara ((ギリシア語:Μελέαγρος); 1st century BCE) was a poet and collector of epigrams. He wrote some satirical prose, now lost, and he wrote some sensual poetry, of which 134 epigrams survive. He also compiled numerous epigrams from diverse poets in an anthology known as the ''Garland'', and although this does not survive, it is the original basis for the ''Greek Anthology''.
==Life==
He was the son of Eucrates, born in the city of Gadara, now Umm Qais in Jordan, which was then a partially Hellenized community in northern Palestine and is identified with Ramoth-Gilead of the Old Testament. He was educated in Tyre and spent his later life in Cos where he died at an advanced age. The scholiast to the Palatine manuscript of the Greek Anthology says he flourished in the reign of Seleucus VI Epiphanes (95 – 93 BCE). The uppermost date of his compilation of the Anthology is 60 BCE, as it did not include Philodemus of Gadara, though later editors added thirty-four epigrams.
Some writers classed him among the Cynics,〔Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophists'' iv. 157. See also Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 99, who classes Meleager with Menippus.〕 and like his compatriot Menippus, Meleager wrote what were known as ''spoudogeloia'' (Greek singular: ), satirical prose essays putting philosophy in popular form with humorous illustrations. These are completely lost. Meleager's fame is securely founded on the one hundred and thirty-four epigrams of his own which he included in his Anthology. The manuscripts of the ''Greek Anthology'' are the sole source of these epigrams.〔''Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology'' J.W. Mackail, editor. Longmans, Green & Co., 1890〕
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