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anthology. Anthology derives from the Greek word meaning “a collection of flowers”—the first recorded one, in fact, is the Greek Garland of Meleager (ca. 90 b.c.). Two of many histori- cally famous ones include the Anthologia Palatina, called the Greek Anthology (ca. 925), and Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (1861), the most noted of English anthologies. Tens of thou- sands of anthologies have been compiled since. Bennett Cerf told the story of a book called The Ten Commandments that was to be published for the armed services but was too long. “How about using only five of them,” quipped editor Philip Van Doren Stern, “and calling it ‘A Treasury of the World’s Best Commandments?’ ” |