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The second edition will present in two volumes, all that survives
and has hitherto been published of pre-Alexandrian elegy and
iambus, including relevant testimonia and critical apparatus. West
reexamines many papyri and manuscript sources including preserved
fragments in quotation from modern editions. Since its appearance
in 1971-72, the work has been widely acknowledged as the standard
critical edition of the early Greek iambic and elegiac poets. This
first volume, thoroughly revised and brought up to date, contains
the Theognidea, works by Hipponax, The Cologne Epode of
Archilochus, several other fragments in a more complete or correct
form, and hundreds of minor improvements.
The "Posterior Analytics" contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of science. The first book expounds and develops the notions of a demonstrative argument, and of a formal, axiomatized science. The second discusses a cluster of problems raised by the axioms of principles of such a science, and investigates in particular the theory of definition.;This volume, like the others in the "Clarendon Aristotle" series, is intended to serve the needs of readers of Aristotle without a knowledge of Greek. For this second edition the translation has been completely rewritten, with the aims of greater elegance and greater fidelity to the Greek. The commentary elucidates and assesses Aristotle's arguments from a philosophical point of view. It has been extensively revised to take account of the scholarship of the last 20 years.
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Here are Sappho's songs and poems as English poems, all her famous
pieces, all the fragments that can make connected sense, and all
the discoveries of 2004 and 2014. These translations set out to be
good English poetry first and foremost, and succeed well beyond
other current versions. They have been made directly from Sappho's
Greek, by a poet with three collections to his credit, and are
relatively close to the Greek. Each piece has a concise footnote
that explains references and allusions, and suggests critical
appreciation. A substantial Afterword says much more about Sappho's
themes, her art and style, and her historical setting. Sappho is
one of the greatest poets of the western world. She lived on the
Greek island of Lesbos around 600 BCE, near the very beginning of
western literature, and composed 300 or so poems and songs. Her
poems create a woman-centred world in which women and relationships
are highly valued, a world of beauty and grace, love and loss,
sandals and hairbands, all sometimes exalted and idealised. She
opposes women's values to those of the dominant male society around
her, and is the first to do this in the western canon. She was
famous in her lifetime and has been deeply admired ever since.
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Edward Dowden
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