Greek Literature: 2an Anthology: Translations from Greek Prose and Poetry

by Various, Michael Grant, Michael Grant

Book Overview

This volume displays the whole range of Greek poetry and prose - epics, lyrics and drama, history, biography and oratory, philosophy, critism and satire, and works of fundamental scientific thought. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140443231
• ISBN13: 9780140443233
• Release Date: April 1977
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 491 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

The Backbone Of Western Literature.

A magnificent & enriching collection of literary works that excel consistenly to the heart & nature of man.These classics remarkably sound so fresh & so important in our present age that to disregard them would be a terrible crime to the benefit & cultivation of our sensibilities.The trademarks of this great civilization's authors are a rich simplicity powerful in it's beauty for description & a precise,matter-of-fact way of describing or presenting their statements that put a lot of gullible modern authors to mortal shame.The most powerful sections are the ones on philosophy & lyric poetry.The passion,intensity & convicingness of the best in these categories have scarcely been matched,then or since.Although several selected lyrics are unremarkable & unrepresentative,the strength & greatness of the rest shadow all of these through.All forms of works since then have come from these works of timeless sublimity, & it's doubtful if it! will ever be replaced;for here is the probabable basis of all what we are & what we will be.MY RATING FOR THIS IS 4 & A HALF STARS.