Abstract: The so-called Paradeisos is a collection of 99 quatrains in elegiac distichs, largely based on the Apophthegmata Patrum.The date of its composition, the author and the title Paradeisos itself are uncertain: the manuscripts provide contradictory information.One of the possible authors mentioned in the manuscripts is John Geometres.Although the attribution of the Paradeisos to Geometres is probably erroneous, it is plausible that the collection stems from the same period and the same milieu: 10th century Constantinoplethe cultural and historical context in which Symeon Metaphrastes was also active and in which Kephalas' anthology of epigrams (best known through the Anthologia Palatina) brought the classical epigrammatic tradition to the fore again.Despite several editorial plans in the 20th century, 1 the Paradeisos is still accessible only in outdated editions, based on one or few of the 44 manuscripts known today and/or on late witnesses from the least reliable branch of the tradition. 21 Announced by John Bagnell Bury, "The Παράδεισος of Joannes Geometres," Byzantinische