Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 019259687X

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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.


Puerilities

Puerilities

Author: Daryl Hine

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2001-05-13

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780691088204

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Book XII of The Greek Anthology, compiled at the court of Hadrian by the poet Strato, contains 258 polished epigrams on the subject of Boy Love'. The short poems, written by such poets as Callimachus, Meleager and Strato himself, are presented in Greek with facing English translation.


Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature

Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature

Author: William Hansen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1998-04-22

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780253211576

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Not all readers in ancient Greece whiled away the hours with Homer, Plato, or Sophocles - at least, not always. Many enjoyed light reading, such as can be found in the pages of this lively anthology. Various types of popular writing - novels, short stories, books of jokes or fables, fortune-telling handbooks - trace their origins to the ancient Mediterranean. In fact, some of this literature was so successful that it remained in circulation for centuries, even into the Middle Ages. Translated into other languages, these works were the best sellers of their time and remain enjoyable reading today. They are also fascinating social documents that reveal much about the daily lives, humor, loves, anxieties, fantasies, values, and beliefs of ordinary men and women.


A Hellenistic Anthology

A Hellenistic Anthology

Author: Neil Hopkinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-02-11

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521314251

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A wide representative range of poetry, including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epics is supplemented by a cultural and historical introduction and commentary clarifying problems of language and text.


Pomegranate Seeds

Pomegranate Seeds

Author: Dean Kostos

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0977461041

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From the Publisher: This volume is the first-ever collection of poems in English by 49 prominent Greek-American poets from throughout the United States. The poems cover a variety of topics and styles.


Greek Lyric

Greek Lyric

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1996-03-21

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1603848592

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Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller's skillful introduction places the works in historical context and briefly describes the different metrical forms represented in the selections. Headnotes to each section highlight the background of the poet whose works follows. Complete with a glossary of names and a select bibliography.


Adventures In Recreational Mathematics (In 2 Volumes)

Adventures In Recreational Mathematics (In 2 Volumes)

Author: David Singmaster

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9811251622

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David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took off in 1978, based on thinly disguised mathematics, he became seriously interested in mathematical puzzles which would provide mental stimulation for students and professional mathematicians. He has not only published the standard mathematical solution for the Rubik's cube still in use today, but he has also become the de facto scribe and noted chronicler of the recreational mathematics puzzles themselves.Dr Singmaster is also an ongoing lecturer of recreational mathematics around the globe, a noted mechanical puzzle collector, owner of thousands of books related to recreational mathematical puzzles and the 'go to' source for the history of individual mathematical puzzles.This set of two books provides readers with an adventure into previously unknown origins of ancient puzzles, which could be traced back to their Medieval, Chinese, Arabic and Indian sources. The puzzles are fully described, many with illustrations, adding interest to their history and relevance to contemporary mathematical concepts. These are musings of a respected historian of recreational mathematics.