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Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (Paperback, 1)
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Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (Paperback, 1)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Loot Price R281
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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.
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