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Complete Poems (Paperback, New Ed)
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Complete Poems (Paperback, New Ed)
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Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of
Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These
exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian,
Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and
heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden
Age Greece. The poems are brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles,
recently hailed by Garry Wills in the New Yorker as "the best
living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic
into modern English." First published in 1961, the book now
includes a new translator's note by Fagles. "[Fagles] has produced
a work which is at once a faithful translation of Bacchylides in
the fullest sense and something which stands and lives in its own
right as a work of art."-Sir Maurice Bowra, from the Foreword
"Fagles has created . . . a musical and craftsmanly series of
verses. As a translator, Fagles has the merits of . . . keeping the
lilting rhythms of Bacchylides alive in one's ear . . . and
unearthing metaphors behind faded Greek words, of splitting the
strings of compound adjectives into pungent clauses which lose
nothing in color but make coordinated English."-Emily Vermeule,
American Journal of Philology "The beauty, richness, and classic
quality of Mr. Fagles's unrhymed verse make this translation a
creative work and a valuable contribution to English letters."-Rae
Dalven, Poetry
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