Author: Andrew Sydenham Farrar GowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : el
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Greek anthology
Author: Andrew Sydenham Farrar GowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : el
Pages : 736
Book Description
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192596888
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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.
The Greek Anthology. Hellenistic Epigrams. Edited by A.S.F. Gow ... and D.L. Page
Author: Andrew Sydenham Farrar GowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
The Greek Anthology
Author: Andrew Sydenham Farrar GowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
The Greek Anthology. Hellenistic Epigrams. Edited by A.S.F. Gow ... and D.L. Page
Author: GREEK ANTHOLOGY.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 from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
Author: Maria KanellouPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192573780
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finest Greek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound interest on Latin literature, and it continues to inspire and influence modern translations and imitations. After a long period of neglect, research on epigram has surged during recent decades, and this volume draws on the fruits of that renewed scholarly engagement. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors or anthologies, but with the evolution of particular subgenres over time, and provides a selection of in-depth treatments of key aspects of Greek literary epigram of the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods. Individual chapters offer insights into a variety of topics, from explorations of the dynamic interactions between poets and their predecessors and contemporaries, and of the relationship between epigram and its socio-political, cultural, and literary background from the third century BCE up until the sixth century CE, to its interaction with its origins, inscribed epigram more generally, other literary genres, the visual arts, and Latin poetry, as well as the process of editing and compilation which generated the collections which survived into the modern world. Through the medium of individual studies the volume as a whole seeks to offer a sense of this vibrant and dynamic poetic form and its world which will be of value to scholars and students of Greek epigram and classical literature more broadly.
Ancient 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.