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Poems from Greek Antiquity

Poems from Greek Antiquity

Quarrie, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral PoetryGreek History

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ISBN10: 1101908211
ISBN13: 9781101908211
Publisher: Everymans Lib
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 4.40 Depth: 6.40
Language: English
A beautiful Pocket Poet selection of short poems, odes, and epigrams from ancient Greece, translated into English by a wide array of distinguished translators and poets

Poems from Greek Antiquity presents a gloriously compact treasury of the enduring and influential poems of the ancient Greeks. Greek literature abounds in masterpieces, the most famous of which are lengthy epics, but it is also rich in poems of much smaller compass than The Iliad or The Odyssey. The short poems, odes, and epigrams included in this volume span a vast period of more than a thousand years. Included here are selections from the early lyric and elegiac poets, the Alexandrian poets, Alcaeus, Sappho, Pindar, and many more. Here, too, are poems drawn from the celebrated Greek Anthology, and from the Anacreontea, the collection of odes on the pleasures of drink, love, and beauty that have been popular for centuries both in the original Greek and in English. Excerpts from somewhat longer poems include Percy Bysshe Shelley's Homeric Hymn to Mercury and the hugely entertaining Homeric pastiche The Battle of the Frogs and Mice. The English translations in this volume are works of art in their own right and come from a wide range of remarkable poets and translators, ranging from George Chapman in the seventeenth century to Robert Fagles in the twentieth.

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