Screen LibraryEpigrams from the Greek anthology /
"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 English epigram (Pope and Dryden) but in Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, Vi...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Ancient Greek |
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Oxford world's classics
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"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 English epigram (Pope and 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"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Item Description: | "A new translation ..."--Cover |
| Carrier Form: | xlii, 244 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxvi) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198854654 019885465X |
| Index Number: | PA3621 |
| CLC: | I545.22 |
| Call Number: | I545.22/E641 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Note on the text and translation -- Select bibliography -- Timeline of main poets and anthologists -- Outline of the anthology -- Book 1. The Christian epigrams -- Book 2. Christodorus, poet of Coptic Thebes -- Book 3. Epigrams at Cyzicus -- Book 4. The prefaces of the various anthologies -- Book 5. Erotic epigrams by various poets -- Book 6. Dedicatory epigrams -- Book 7. Epitaphic epigrams -- Book 8. Epigrams of Saint Gregory the Theologian -- Book 9. Epideictic epigrams -- Book 10. Advisory epigrams -- Book 11. Scoptic and sympotic epigrams -- Book 12. Strato's 'Boyish Muse' -- Book 13. Epigrams in assorted metres -- Book 14. Arithmetical problems, riddles, and oracles -- Book 15. Miscellaneous epigrams -- Book 16. The Planudean Appendix. |