anthology (n.) : mid 17th century: via French or medieval Latin from Greek anthologia, from anthos ‘flower’ + -logia ‘collection’ (from legein ‘gather’). In Greek, the word originally denoted a collection of the ‘flowers’ of verse, i.e. small choice poems or epigrams, by various authors.

Theatre of the Anthologists of Regard
'I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread which binds them is my own'
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)