is concerned with personal experience and emotions, frequently with love and its discontents. He typically describes himself not as an active and engaged lover, but as one struck by the beauty of a woman or boy. The following is an example: References Bibliography Texts and translations The Greek Anthology I (Loeb Classical Library) W. R. Paton (1916) Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press; London: Heinemann) [Original Greek with facing page English translations] Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology. J. W. Mackail (1890) Longmans, Green & Co. [English translations] The Greek Anthology. Charles Neaves (1874) New York: John B. Alden [English translations and commentary] Secondary sources Smith, Philip (1867) "Meleager"; "Planudes". In William Smith (ed.) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Further reading The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams Edited by A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page (2 vols., 1965 Cambridge U.P.) [Ancient Greek text, English translations, detailed commentary] The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams. Peter Jay (1974) Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press [English translations] Meleager, The Poems of Meleager Tr. Peter Wigham, Peter Jay. (1975. Anvil Press) Meleager, Meleager: The Poems Tr. Jerry Clack (1992. Bolchazy-Carducci) External links Meleager of Gadara: translation of all surviving epigrams at attalus.org; adapted from W. R. Paton (1916–18) 1st-century BC poets Ancient Greek anthologists Ancient Greek poets Cynic philosophers Hellenistic-era people Roman-era Greeks Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology