Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and indexes
1 - Introduction -- - 2 - Hellenistic Epigram Books: The Evidence from Manuscripts and Papyri - "In the Epigrams of ..." - On Papyri - In Manuscript -- - 3 - The Third Century: From Stone to Book - Anyte - Nossis - Leonidas of Tarentum -- - 4 - The Third Century: Erotic and Sympotic Epigram - Asclepiades - Posidippus - Hedylus -- - 5 - The Book and the Scholar: Callimachus' Epigrammata - The Epigrammata - Dedicatory Epigrams - Sepulchral Epigrams - Erotic Epigrams -- - 6 - The Art of Variation: From Book to Anthology - Antipater of Sidon - Meleager - I. - Structure of Cephalan Books -- - II. - Meleager's Amatory Book -- - III. - Structure of Meleager's Amatory Book -- - IV. - Meleager's Dedicatory Book -- - V. - Meleager's Sepulchral Book -- - VI. - Meleager's Epideictic Book