Greek Lyrics, Second Edition: More than a Hundred Poems and Poetic Fragments from the Great Age of Greek Lyric Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226469447)

A collection of more than one hundred poems and poetic fragments from the golden age of Greek Lyric poetry.

In this second edition of Greek Lyrics, translator and editor Richmond Lattimore brings together a vast assortment of seventh-and sixth-century Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry. For the Greekless student or curious scholar, these translations showcase the diversity of poetic subjects in classical antiquity, which range from love poems to medical inscriptions and drinking songs. Gracefully and robustly translated by a number of top-tier translators, this volume includes poets such as Arch韑ochus, Call韓us, Sem髇ides of Am髍gos, Hipp髇ax, Tyrta閡s, Mimn閞mus, Solon, Phoc齦ides, Xen髉hanes, The骻nis, Terp醤der, Alcman, Stes韈horus, 韇ycus, Sappho, Alca閡s, An醕reon, H齜rias, Prax韑la, Cor韓na, Sim髇ides of Ceos, Pindar, and Bacch齦ides.

Author: Richmond Lattimore
ISBN-10: 0226469441
ISBN-13: 9780226469447
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1960
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.22d