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Currently the lead defines anthologies as "collections of epigrams and short poems". It seems to me that this definition is missing a crucial part: that the collection be compiled of works by different authors. A collection of epigrams by a single author is not to my mind an anthology. Francesca Maltomini's survey of epigram anthologies in the Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epigram agrees with this definition, and notes that other scholars (she names Cameron and Argentieri) use more restrictive definitions still.

Under this definition, the collection of Posidippus' epigrams is not an anthology, and arguably (insofar as they were collected by people who believed them to be authentically by Anacreon) nor are the Anacreontea.

Similarly on thin ice are the peri epigrammaton by Neoptolemus and the peri ton kata poleis epigrammaton by Polemon: in 1853 Charles Anthon said these were collections of epigrams, but Maltomini says "a title beginning with περί would suit a work on epigrams rather than a proper collection" [emphasis original]. Is the scholarly consensus still that these were anthologies of epigrams? Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 16:19, 23 July 2023 (UTC)