Planudes Maximus
Planudes Maximus
(pləno͞o`dēz măk`sĭməs) orMaximus Planudes,
c.1260–c.1330, Byzantine scholar, an exceptionally learned monk. His edition of the Greek AnthologyGreek Anthology,a collection of short epigrammatic poems representing Greek literature from the 7th cent. B.C. to the 10th cent. A.D. It contains more than 6,000 poems on a variety of subjects by some 320 authors.
..... Click the link for more information. was long the standard. His prose collection of Aesop's Fables is outstanding.