Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10019885465X
- ISBN-139780198854654
- Library of Congress Control Number2020009714
- OCLC Control Number1142891271
- Better World Books9780198854654
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29504681M
Classifications
- LCCPA3621.E65 2020
- LCCPA3621 .E65 2020
Description
"Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up a millennium of snapshots from ancient daily life. Its influence echoes not merely in the classic tradition of English epigram (Pope and Dryden) but in Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, Virgina Woolf, T. S. Eliot, H.D., and the poets of the First World War. Its variety is almost infinite: victorious armies, ruined cities, and Olympic champions share space with lovers' quarrels and laments for the untimely dead - but also with jokes and riddles, art appreciation, potted biographies of authors, and scenes from country life and the workplace. This selection of more than 600 epigrams in verse is the first major translation from the Greek Anthology in nearly a century. Each of the Anthology's books of epigrams is represented here, in manuscript order, and with extensive notes on the history and myth that lie behind them"--
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