Meleager of Gadara

Meleager of Gadara, a Syrian Greek who grew up in Tyre and later lived on Cos, flourished around 100 BC. He compiled the first great anthology of Greek epigrams, the Garland (Stephanus), in which every poet is likened to a flower, and he added many short love poems of his own.

W. R. Paton prints Meleager's proem to his Garland as Book IV, 1, and attributes many of the amatory epigrams of Book V to him.