Author: Peter JayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams
Author: Peter JayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192596888
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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.
The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams
Author: Peter JayThe Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Greek Epigrams
Author: Peter JayAncient Greek Epigrams
Author: Gordon L. FainPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This volume presents a selection of Greek epigrams in verse translation, including many from the recently discovered Milan papyrus. The poets represented are Anyte, Leonidas of Tarentum, Asclepiades, Posidippus, Callimachus, Theocritus, Meleager, Philodemos and Lucillius.
"Greek Anthology" and Other Ancient Epigrams
Author: Peter JayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140448542
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A selection from the original Greek anthology assembled by Byzantine scholars in the 10th century. The poems are drawn from all over the Greek-speaking world and range over 13 centuries.
Puerilities
Author: Daryl HinePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691088204
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Book XII of The Greek Anthology, compiled at the court of Hadrian by the poet Strato, contains 258 polished epigrams on the subject of Boy Love'. The short poems, written by such poets as Callimachus, Meleager and Strato himself, are presented in Greek with facing English translation.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: John William MackailPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: Gideon NisbetPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019885465X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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.
Greek Epigram in Reception
Author: Gideon NisbetPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019163946X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde. The after-effects of this cultural war were to stretch into the 1920s, and still echo today.