A STUDY OF THE GREEK EPIGRAM BEFORE 300 b. c.i 



By Florence Alden Gragg. 



Presented by H. Weir Smyth, February 9, 1910. Received May 10, 1910. 



Although there exist several collections of Greek epigrams and many 

 treatises on individual epigrammatists, such as Anacreon, Simonides, 

 and Plato, no one has as yet collected and arranged in chronological 

 order the epigrams which have been preserved both on stone and in 

 MSS. and examined them in detail with the purpose of throwing light 



* Selected Bibliography together with a List of Abbreviations by which the works 

 are cited : 



AEMO = Archaeologische epigraphische Mittheilnngen aiis Oesterreich. 

 AM = Mittheilungen des Deutscheii Archaeologischen Instituts, athenische Abtheil- 



ung. 

 AP = Anthologia Palatina. 



I-IX, 563, ed. H. Stadtmiiller. Leipzig, 1894-99. 



IX-end, with ap])endix, ed. F. Jacobs. Leipzig, 1814. 

 A PI = Anthologia Planudea, ed. F. Jacobs. Leipzig, 1884. 



Allen = F. D. Allen, On Greek Versification in Inscriptions. Papers of the American 

 School of Classical Studies at Athens, vol. 4, pp. 37-204. Boston, 1888. 

 B, Bergk, or PLG = Th. Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci*. Leipzig, 1892. 

 BCH = Bulletin de Correspondence Helleni(|ue. 

 Boas = M. Boas, De Epigrammatis Simonideis. Groningen, 1905. 

 CIA = Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum. 



Vol. I, ed. Kirchhoff. Berlin, 1873. 



Vol. II, ed. Koehler. Berlin, 1877-88. 



Vol. Ill, ed. Dittenberger. Berlin, 1878-82. 



Vol. IV, ed. Koehler. Berlin, 1877-91. 

 CIG = Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum. 



Vol. 1, ed. Boeckh. Berlin, 1828. 



Vol. 11, ed. Boeckh. Berlin, 1843. 



VoL III, ed. Franz. Berlin, 1853. 



Vol. IV, ed. Curtius & Kirchhoff. Berlin, 1877. 

 CRAI = Comptes Rendus de I'Academie d'Inscriptions et de Belles- Lettres. 

 Fava = D. Fava, Gli Epigrammi di Platone. Milan, 1901. 

 Haenel, J. De Epigrammatis Graeci Historia. Breslan, 1852. 

 II = E. Hoffmann, Sylloge Ei)igrammatum Graecorum quae ante medium .saeculum 



a. Chr. n. tertium incisa ad nos pervenerunt. Halle, 1893. 

 Hauvette = A. Hauvette, Del'Authenticite desEpigrammesdeSimonide. Paris, 1896. 

 Henkenrath, R. Studien zu den griechischeu Grabschriften. Feldkirch, 1896. 



