Author: John William MackailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: John William MackailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Select Epigrams From the Greek Anthology (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. W. MackailPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266833420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Excerpt from Select Epigrams From the Greek Anthology A form of poetry which remained alive for seven teen centuries is unique in literary history, and bears striking testimony to the extraordinary vitality of the Greek genius. That vitality is not yet exhausted; it is still an influence over modern life, art, and thought. This selection of Greek minor poetry draws for us a picture of Greece in little; it is an epitome, slightly sketched with a facile hand, of the book of Greek life. A translation, notwithstanding its limitations and its necessary inadequacy, may give to English readers much of the substance, and some thing even Of the tone and flavour, of the original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
SELECT EPIGRAMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
Author: JOHN WILLIAM. MACKAILPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033541937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Select Epigrams From the Greek Anthology
Author: John William MackailPublisher:
ISBN: 9781333080198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Excerpt from Select Epigrams From the Greek Anthology: Edited, With a Revised Text, Introduction, Translation and Notes The purpose of this book is to present a complete collection, subject to certain definitions and exceptions which will be mentioned later, of all the best extant Greek Epigrams. Although many epigrams not given here have in different ways a special interest of their own, none, it is hoped, have been excluded which are of the first excellence in any style. But, while it would be easy to agree on three - fourths of the matter to be included in such a scope, perhaps hardly any two persons would be in exact accordance with regard to the rest with many pieces which lie on the border line of excellence, the decision must be made on a balance of very slight considerations, and becomes in the end one rather of personal taste than of any fixed principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: John William MackailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259687X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 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 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.
Hellenistic Epigrams
Author: Alexander SensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108916538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Greek 'literary' epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. Originally modeled on the anonymous epitaphs and dedications inscribed on monuments throughout antiquity, these short poems came to include a variety of subtypes and served as a vehicle for Hellenistic poets to experiment with themes and motifs from other genres. This edition introduces students to a wide selection of epigrams from the third and second centuries BCE. It provides substantial help in construing the Greek and will be appropriate for those approaching the genre for the first time, whilst also containing material of interest to scholars. It includes work by the most important epigrammatists of this period, with substantial attention paid to the way these poets engage with the epigraphic and literary traditions. The Introduction provides an overview of the history of the genre and of its formal features, including dialect and meter.
English Translations from the Greek
Author: Finley Melville Kendall FosterPublisher: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A bibliography of English translations, from the establishment of Caxton's printing press in 1476 to the early 20th century, of Ancient Greek texts to 200 A.D.
A Hellenistic Anthology
Author: Neil HopkinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521314251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A wide representative range of poetry, including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epics is supplemented by a cultural and historical introduction and commentary clarifying problems of language and text.
Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period
Author: Neil HopkinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition each section of detailed commentary is prefaced by a discussion of literary aspects of the poems and of their wider contexts. The book is intended primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of Greek, but will be of interest also to Classical scholars.