Greek Lyrics, Second Edition: More Than a Hundred Poems and Poetic Fragments from the Great Age of Greek Lyric Poetry

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 Archílochus, Callínus, Semónides of Amórgos, Hippónax, Tyrtaéus, Mimnérmus, Solon, Phocýlides, Xenóphanes, Theógnis, Terpánder, Alcman, Stesíchorus, íbycus, Sappho, Alcaéus, Anácreon, Hýbrias, Praxílla, Corínna, Simónides of Ceos, Pindar, and Bacchýlides.

Author: Richmond Lattimore
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/15/1960
Series: Phoenix Books
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9780226469447
2nd Rev and Enl Edition