Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of "The Greek Anthology" (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
by Daryl Hine
Category: Poetry

Book XII of The Greek Anthology, compiled at the court of Hadrian by the poet Strato, contains 258 polished epigrams on the subject of Boy Love'. The short poems, written by such poets as Callimachus, Meleager and Strato himself, are presented in Greek with facing English translation.