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			==See also==
			[[Epigrams]]
			[[Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology]]

	==Further reading==		==Further reading==

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'''Straton of Sardis''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Στράτων}}; better known under his [[Latin]] name '''Strato''') was a [[Greek language|Greek]] poet and anthologist from the [[Lydia]]n city of [[Sardis]]. He is thought to have lived during the time of [[Hadrian]], based on Straton authorship of a poem about the doctor [[Artemidorus Capito]], a contemporary of Hadrian. Straton is mentioned by [[Diogenes Laertius]], at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.

Straton assembled the anthology of erotic and amorous [[epigram]]s called the ''Μουσα Παιδικη'' (''Mousa Paidike'', "The Boyish Muse" or [[Musa Puerilis]]).

Around 900 AD, a [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] scholar named [[Constantine Cephalas]] compiled pieces of several Greek anthologies, including ''The Boyish Muse'', to make a comprehensive collection of [[Greek epigram]]s. Since there is no other textual proof, we do not know if ''The Boyish Muse'' was taken whole, or if a selection was made from it, or if Cephalas maintained the order of the original anthology, or how much of it is original.

[[Anthology of Cephalas|Cephalas's collection]] was revised, divided into specialized anthologies, adapted for school use, and generally much copied. In 1301 AD, a scholar named [[Maximus Planudes]] put together a [[Thomas Bowdler|bowdlerized]] version of the Cephalan book, which became very popular in the Greek part of the ''[[Oikumene|οiκουμένη]]''. When the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] conquered the remains of the [[Byzantine empire]], many Greek scholars brought versions of Planudes' version with them into exile in [[Italy]]. The Greeks became teachers to Italian scholars. In 1494 they printed an edition of the Planudean book, the ''[[Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum]]'', in [[Florence]].

Most of what we know of Straton's work comes instead from a manuscript copied around 980 AD, which preserved many of the poems from the earlier Cephalan anthology. This manuscript was discovered in the library of the Counts [[Palatine]] in [[Heidelberg]] in 1606 or 1607, by a young visiting scholar named [[Claudius Salmasius]], now called the [[Palatine Anthology]]. There is no clear record of how it got there, but a visiting Italian scholar probably left it. About the middle of the 16th century, the [[Rome|Roman]] scholar and [[antiquarian]] [[Fulvio Orsini]] (1529–1600) had seen and mentioned such a manuscript, then in the possession of one [[Angelo Colloti]].

The newly discovered poems in the Palatine version were copied out by Salmasius, and he began to circulate clandestine manuscript copies as the ''Anthologia Inedita''. His copy was later published: first in 1776 when [[Richard François Philippe Brunck]] included it in his ''Analecta''; and then the full [[Palatine Anthology]] was published by [[Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs|F. Jacobs]] as the ''[[Greek Anthology|Anthologia Graeca]]'' (13 vols. 1794 - 1803; revised 1813 - 1817). The remains of Straton's ''The Boyish Muse'' became Book 12 in Jacob's critical ''Anthologia Graeca'' edition.

Because of its taboo subject matter, until the mid-20th century Straton's work was generally left untranslated, translated only into [[Latin]], published in [[censorship|censored]] forms, or translated only in private editions. These translations helped form the Greek core of influential homosexual poetry anthologies, such as [[Elisar von Kupffer]]'s ''[[Lieblingminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur]]'' (1899) and [[Edward Carpenter]]'s ''Iolaus'' (1908). New translations of Straton's 'Book 12' were later published by poets such as [[Roger Peyrefitte]] and [[Salvatore Quasimodo]].

The first complete verse translation from Greek into English of Straton's surviving anthology of poems was published by [[Princeton University]] in 2001 as ''Puerilities''. This collection contains 258 surviving poems (omitting one, an obvious later forgery), translated by [[Daryl Hine]], with Greek originals facing. The title is a pun on the one-time title of the work, the ''[[Musa Puerilis]]''. ''Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso'' recently published in 2007 Lucia Floridi's ''Stratone di Sardi. Epigrammi. Testo critico, traduzione e commento'', a book incorporating 105 epigrams into a single edition with commentary.

An article by James Jope in the journal ''Mouseion'' (2005) compares the translations by Hine and Peyrefitte and discusses how the poems can be reshaped in a modern context.

Scholars have noted Straton's anthology as a strong influence on the work of 20th-century Greek poet [[Constantine P. Cavafy|C.P. Cavafy]].

==Further reading==

* {{cite book| last = Cameron| first = Alan| title = The Greek Anthology: From Meleager to Planudes| year = 1993| publisher = Oxford University Press on Demand| isbn = 978-0-19-814023-8 }}
* {{cite book| last = Hine| first = Daryl| title = Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of "The Greek Anthology"| year = 2001| publisher = Princeton University Press| isbn = 978-0-691-08820-4 }}
* James Jope, 'Translating Strato: The role of translations in the Study of Ancient Sexuality and the Understanding of Classical Erotica', ''Mouseion'', Series III vol. 5 (2005) 47-57.
* Stratone di Sardi, ''Epigrammi'', ed. Maria Elisabetta Giannuzzi (Lecce: Pensa multimedia, 2007) (Satura, 7), ISBN 978-88-8235-640-8.
* {{cite book| author = Straton (of Sardis)|author2=Lucia Floridi | title = Epigrammi| year = 2007| isbn = 978-88-7694-967-8 }}

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