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Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0192596888 |
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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.
Author | : William Hansen |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1998-04-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780253211576 |
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Not all readers in ancient Greece whiled away the hours with Homer, Plato, or Sophocles - at least, not always. Many enjoyed light reading, such as can be found in the pages of this lively anthology. Various types of popular writing - novels, short stories, books of jokes or fables, fortune-telling handbooks - trace their origins to the ancient Mediterranean. In fact, some of this literature was so successful that it remained in circulation for centuries, even into the Middle Ages. Translated into other languages, these works were the best sellers of their time and remain enjoyable reading today. They are also fascinating social documents that reveal much about the daily lives, humor, loves, anxieties, fantasies, values, and beliefs of ordinary men and women.
Author | : Peter Jay |
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Michael Grant |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Alan Cameron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198140238 |
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The Greek Anthology is one of the great books of European literature, "a garden containing the flowers and weeds of 1500 years of Greek epigram." Cameron's study adds a wealth of new information about its growth over an even longer period, from the earliest papyrus anthologies down to the 1606 rediscovery of the Palatine Anthology (AP), our principal source for the entire history of Greek epigram, from Simonides to the Byzantine age. It was a Byzantine schoolmaster, Constantine Cephalas, who excerpted all the major ancient collections around 900. His work is reconstructed from a closer analysis of AP (ca 940) and the various later collections. Following a number of neglected clues, Cameron identifies the compiler of AP as Constantine the Rhodian, and solves the mystery of the wanderings of AP during the renaissance, showing that it once belonged to Sir Thomas More.
Author | : Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow |
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Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Epigrams, Greek |
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Author | : Joint Association of Classical Teachers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521000260 |
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Author | : Greek Anthology |
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Release | : 1916 |
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Author | : John William Mackail |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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