null Skip to main content

2 for £15 on selected paperbacks | Free UK P&P on orders over £25

Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

Format: Paperback
£11.99

Free UK P&P on online orders over £25

Adding to basket… The item has been added
Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire,But now another has him in his net -Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109Encompassing 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 the English epigram (Pope, 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.
Write a Review

There are no reviews for this product yet - be the first

Year Published:
2020
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780198854654
Number of Pages:
288
Publication Date:
26/11/2020
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Place of Publication:
Oxford
Language:
English
SKU:
9780198854654

Customers also bought