Greek Lyric Poetry: The poems and fragments of the Greek iambic, elegiac, and melic poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) down to 450 BC (The ^AWorld's Classics)

By Ibycus, Cydias, Apollodorus, et al.

Book Overview

A collection of translations of the Poems and fragments of the Greek Iambic, Elegiac and Melic poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) down to 450BC', which includes Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and more. Not merely a collection, it covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, including a number of pieces not previously translated. Now available in paperback.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192823604
• ISBN13: 9780192823601
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.4" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Greek Poetry

M.L. West is one of the finest classicists today dealing with Greek poetry. He knows this subject better than most and you can tell with the selection of poets he chooses to elucidate. The years he covers are not the only years Greek poetry was written, but the poets are among the most famous: Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilocos (my favorite) and many more. I believe this book will give you enough overlay of Greek Lyric poetry that you wouldn't have to read another one. Perfect for the average reader, or the classicist who wishes to experiment in what they are reading.