Data about epigrams

Let us now have a look at the data available for each epigram. Most of these data are present in the list of epigrams (alldata['results']), but each epigram has its own endpoint, structured on the basis of its book and its number.

The Greek Anthology has 16 books, as you can see here:

number_of_books = requests.get('https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/books/').json()['count']

print(number_of_books)
  16

An epigram is normally identified by a number (for exemple 1 or 145).

Sometimes there are two or more epigrams for the same number. In these cases letters are used (e.g. 132a).

Based on this information the epigram endpoind will be structured as follows:

/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:+bookNumber.+epigramNumber+epigramLetter

an example from the platform: https://anthologiagraeca.org/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:12.132a/

This url is avaiable in the list of epigrams as one can see in the field url of each result (let us take the first one here):

epigrams_url = 'http://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/'
epigrams = requests.get(epigrams_url).json()
epigrams['results'][0]['url']
  'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:1.1/?format=json'

Let us have a look at the epigram 6.13, which means the epigram number 13 of the book 6:

ep6_13 = requests.get('https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.13').json()

ep6_13

Results

{'id': 394,
 'book': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/books/5/', 'number': 6},
 'fragment': 13,
 'sub_fragment': '',
 'urn': 'urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.13',
 'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.13/',
 'web_url': '/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.13/',
 'manuscripts': ['http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/iiif/2/cpgraec23%3A142.jpg/pct:10.614886731391586,73.26114119117034,50.355987055016186,4.664723032069971/full/0/default.jpg',
  'http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/iiif/2/cpgraec23%3A143.jpg/pct:30.37231055564613,13.349681305818653,51.660362990702126,7.613758509494807/full/0/default.jpg'],
 'texts': [{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/1463/',
   'language': 'grc',
   'text': 'οἱ τρισσοί τοι ταῦτα τὰ δίκτυα θῆκαν ὅμαιμοι,\nἀγρότα Πάν, ἄλλης ἄλλος ἀπ᾽ ἀγρεσίης:\nὧν ἀπὸ μὲν πτηνῶν Πίγρης τάδε, ταῦτα δὲ Δᾶμις\nτετραπόδων, Κλείτωρ δ᾽ ὁ τρίτος εἰναλίων.\nἀνθ᾽ ὧν τῷ μὲν πέμπε δι᾽ ἠέρος εὔστοχον ἄγρην,\nτῷ δὲ διὰ δρυμῶν, τῷ δὲ δι᾽ ἠϊόνων. '},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/1464/',
   'language': 'ita',
   'text': 'Tre fratelli ti hanno dedicato queste reti,\nPan cacciatore, ognuna proveniente da una caccia differente.\nPigre queste di uccelli, Damis queste,\ndi bestie feroci, Cleitore, il terzo, di animali marini.\nIn cambio dai una caccia fortunata al primo in aria\nal secondo nei boschi e al terzo sulle rive.'},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/1465/',
   'language': 'fra',
   'text': "Ces trois frères t'ont dédié ces filets,\nPan chasseur, chacun issu d'une chasse différente.\nPigres celles-ci, d'oiseaux, Damis celle-ci,\nde bêtes féroces, Cléitor, le troisième, d'animaux marins.\nEn échange donne une bonne chasse au premier dans l'air,\nau deuxième dans les bois et au troisième sur les rivages."},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/1466/',
   'language': 'fra',
   'text': "Les trois frères t'ont consacré, chasseur Pan, ces filets, pris par chacun à son genre de chasse: Pigrès, pour les oiseaux; Damis, pour les quadrupèdes; Cléitor, pour le peuple de la mer. Envoie-leur en échange une bonne chasse à l'un par les airs, au second par les bois, à l'autre par les grèves."},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/1467/',
   'language': 'eng',
   'text': 'Huntsman Pan, the three brothers dedicated these nets to thee, each from a different chase: Pigres these from fowl, Damis these from beast, and Clitor his from the denizens of the deep. In return for which send them easily caught game, to the first through the air, to the second through the woods, and to the third through the shore-water.'}],
 'authors': [{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/authors/19/',
   'tlg_id': 'tlg-1458',
   'names': [{'name': 'Leonidas of Tarentum', 'language': 'eng'},
    {'name': 'Λεωνίδας ὁ Ταραντῖνος', 'language': 'grc'},
    {'name': 'Leonida di Taranto', 'language': 'ita'},
    {'name': 'Λεωνίδας ᾿Αλεξανδρεύς', 'language': 'grc'},
    {'name': "Léonidas d'Alexandrie", 'language': 'fra'},
    {'name': 'Leonidas of Alexandria', 'language': 'eng'}]}],
 'cities': [],
 'keywords': [{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/1/',
   'names': [{'name': 'distique élégiaque', 'language': 'fra'},
    {'name': 'distico elegiaco', 'language': 'ita'},
    {'name': 'Elegiac couplet', 'language': 'eng'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/1/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Formes métriques', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Metric forms', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Metra', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Forme metriche', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Formas métricas', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/4/',
   'names': [{'name': 'époque hellénistique', 'language': 'fra'},
    {'name': 'epoca ellenistica', 'language': 'ita'},
    {'name': 'hellenistic period', 'language': 'eng'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/4/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Époques', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Periods', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Tempora', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Periodi', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Épocas', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/73/',
   'names': [{'name': 'Validé par William', 'language': 'fra'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/11/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Validation', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Validation', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Contralectus', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Validazione', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Validação', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/186/',
   'names': [{'name': 'dedicatory', 'language': 'eng'},
    {'name': 'votif (anathématique)', 'language': 'fra'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/3/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Genres', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Genres', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Genera', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Generi', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Gêneros', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/234/',
   'names': [{'name': 'Damis', 'language': 'eng'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/9/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Personnes citées', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Quoted persons', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Homines memorati', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Persone citate', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Pessoas citadas', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/270/',
   'names': [{'name': 'Chasse', 'language': 'fra'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/10/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Motifs', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Motifs', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Themata', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Motivi', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Motivos', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/492/',
   'names': [{'name': 'Pan', 'language': 'eng'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/7/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Divinités', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Deities', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Divinitates', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Divinità', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Divindades', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/574/',
   'names': [{'name': 'Πίγρης', 'language': 'grc'},
    {'name': 'Pigrès', 'language': 'fra'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/9/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Personnes citées', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Quoted persons', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Homines memorati', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Persone citate', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Pessoas citadas', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/575/',
   'names': [{'name': 'Κλείτωρ', 'language': 'grc'},
    {'name': 'Cléitor', 'language': 'fra'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/9/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Personnes citées', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Quoted persons', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Homines memorati', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Persone citate', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Pessoas citadas', 'language': 'por'}]}}],
 'scholia': [{'book': 6,
   'fragment': 13,
   'sub_fragment': '',
   'number': 1,
   'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/scholia/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5011.tlg001.sag:6.13.1/'},
  {'book': 6,
   'fragment': 13,
   'sub_fragment': '',
   'number': 2,
   'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/scholia/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5011.tlg001.sag:6.13.2/'}],
 'comments': [{'description': ['# Fresque de Pompéi\n\n Cette épigramme est représentée, selon Gutzwiller, dans une fresque de Pompéi'],
   'language': ['fra']},
  {'description': ["# Imitations de 6.13\n\n C'est vraisemblablement cette pièce de Léonidas qui a inspiré les épigr. 11-16 et 179-187, entre autres 14 (d'Antipater) et 16 (d'Archias), qui n'en sont que des imitations assez serviles. Elle était, en tous cas, une des plus classiques de toute la série; car c'est celle-là qu'on avait gravée sur le mur d'une maison de Pompéi pour servir de légende à une scène où était peinte cette offrande de trois chasseurs; mais il ne subsiste, des trois distiques que comportait l'inscription, que cinq lettres disséminées et les six premières du v. 6; et il a fallu toute la perspicacité de Dilthey pour y reconnaître des fragments de notre épigramme. \n-P. Waltz "],
   'language': ['fra']}],
 'external_references': [],
 'internal_references': [{'to_passage': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.11/',
   'reference_type': 'Default'},
  {'to_passage': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.14/',
   'reference_type': 'Default'},
  {'to_passage': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.179/',
   'reference_type': 'Default'},
  {'to_passage': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.186/',
   'reference_type': 'Default'},
  {'to_passage': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:6.187/',
   'reference_type': 'Default'}],
 'media': []}

ep12_132a = requests.get('https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:12.132a').json()

ep12_132a

Results

{'id': 3199,
 'book': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/books/8/', 'number': 12},
 'fragment': 132,
 'sub_fragment': 'a',
 'urn': 'urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:12.132a',
 'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:12.132a/',
 'web_url': '/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:12.132a/',
 'manuscripts': ['http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/iiif/2/cpgraec23%3A589.jpg/pct:11.78916,41.5646,60.6891,16.87853/full/0/default.jpg'],
 'texts': [{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/6328/',
   'language': 'grc',
   'text': 'ἆ ψυχὴ βαρύμοχθε, σὺ δ᾽ ἄρτι μὲν ἐκ πυρὸς αἴθῃ,\n ἄρτι δ᾽ ἀναψύχεις, πνεῦμ᾽ ἀναλεξαμένη.\nτί κλαίεις; τὸν ἄτεγκτον ὅτ᾽ ἐν κόλποισιν Ἔρωτα\n ἔτρεφες, οὐκ ᾔδεις ὡς ἐπὶ σοὶ τρέφετο;\n\n                  οὐκ ᾔδεις; νῦν γνῶθι καλῶν ἄλλαγμα τροφείων,\nπῦρ ἅμα καὶ ψυχρὰν δεξαμένη χιόνα.\n αὐτὴ ταῦθ᾽ εἵλου: φέρε τὸν πόνον. ἄξια πάσχεις\nὧν ἔδρας, ὀπτῷ καιομένη μέλιτι.'},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/11852/',
   'language': 'eng',
   'text': 'O sore-afflicted soul, now thou bumest in the fire and now thou revivest, recovering thy breath. Why dost thou weep? When thou didst nurse merciless Love in thy bosom knewest thou not that he was being nursed for thy bane ? Didst thou not know it ? Now learn to know the pay of thy good nursing, receiving from him fire and cold snow therewith. Thyself thou hast chosen this ; bear the pain. Thou sufferest the due guerdon of what thou hast done, burnt by his boiling honey.'},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/11856/',
   'language': 'fra',
   'text': 'Oh\xa0! mon âme accablée de souffrances, tantôt c’est le feu qui te brûle, tantôt tu reprends vie en retrouvant le souffle\xa0! Tu pleures\xa0? Lorsque dans ton sein tu nourrissais l’impitoyable Amour, ne savais-tu pas que c’était contre toi que tu le nourrissais\xa0? Tu ne le savais pas\xa0? Vois maintenant le salaire de tes bons soins\xa0: tu reçois tout ensemble feu et neige glacée\xa0! C’est toi, toi qu’il l’a choisi\xa0! Supporte ta douleur\xa0! Juste souffrance de tes actes, la brûlure du miel ardent\xa0!'}],
 'authors': [{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/authors/2/',
   'tlg_id': 'tlg-1492',
   'names': [{'name': 'Μελέαγρος', 'language': 'grc'},
    {'name': 'Meleager', 'language': 'eng'},
    {'name': 'Méléagre', 'language': 'fra'}]}],
 'cities': [],
 'keywords': [{'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/1/',
   'names': [{'name': 'distique élégiaque', 'language': 'fra'},
    {'name': 'distico elegiaco', 'language': 'ita'},
    {'name': 'Elegiac couplet', 'language': 'eng'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/1/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Formes métriques', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Metric forms', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Metra', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Forme metriche', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Formas métricas', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/3/',
   'names': [{'name': 'erotic', 'language': 'eng'},
    {'name': 'érotic', 'language': 'fra'},
    {'name': 'erotico', 'language': 'ita'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/3/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Genres', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Genres', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Genera', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Generi', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Gêneros', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/4/',
   'names': [{'name': 'époque hellénistique', 'language': 'fra'},
    {'name': 'epoca ellenistica', 'language': 'ita'},
    {'name': 'hellenistic period', 'language': 'eng'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/4/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Époques', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Periods', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Tempora', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Periodi', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Épocas', 'language': 'por'}]}},
  {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keywords/181/',
   'names': [{'name': 'Couronne de Méléagre', 'language': 'fra'}],
   'category': {'url': 'https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/keyword_categories/14/',
    'names': [{'name': 'Collections', 'language': 'fra'},
     {'name': 'Collections', 'language': 'eng'},
     {'name': 'Collecteana', 'language': 'lat'},
     {'name': 'Collezioni', 'language': 'ita'},
     {'name': 'Coleções', 'language': 'por'}]}}],
 'scholia': [],
 'comments': [],
 'external_references': [],
 'internal_references': [],
 'media': []}

The epigram's number is in the key fragment and the letter (when it has one) in the key sub_fragment.