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1	The Odyssey of Homer more books like this by Richmond Lattimore (Translator) add to wishlist Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.83! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Iliad more books like this by Homer add to wishlist Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with "The Iliad", his translation of which Samuel Johnson called "the greatest version of poetry the world has ever seen". This edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to listen in as one poetic genius illuminates the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Greek Lyrics more books like this by Richmond Lattimore add to wishlist Enlarged edition with more than a hundred poems and poetic fragments from the great age of Greek lyric poetry - in robust and graceful modern translation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.93! \| SVS
4	The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets more books like this by Michael Schmidt, D.V add to wishlist When Schmidt's last book, "Lives of the Poets," was published, Mark Strand called it Ra tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read.S Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and lan to "The First Poets"--the story of the ancient Greeks whose work continues to influence poetry in our own time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Greek Lyric Poetry more books like this by M L West (Translator) add to wishlist The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in ... see all copies from $3.93! new only from $5.98! \| SVS
6	Greek Lyric Poetry more books like this by D A Campbell add to wishlist This eition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. see all copies from $25.65! new only from $34.98!
7	Where Troy once stood more books like this by Iman Wilkens add to wishlist Arguing that the events described in "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" happened not in the Eastern Mediterranean, but in North-West Europe and the North Atlantic, this book goes further than merely tracing connections between Britain and Troy. The book argues that the Aegean/Mediterranean place names, like the "European" names in North America ... see all copies from $72.76! first editions
8	Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation more books like this by Andrew M Miller add to wishlist 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 skilful introduction places the works in historical context and briefly describes the different metrical forms ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $13.12!
9	Theogony more books like this by Norman O Brown (Translator), Hesiod add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences more books like this by Hesiod add to wishlist Similar in style to Homer's early epics, Hesiod's "Works & Days" is part myth, agricultural treatise, and philosophical guide. The poet emphasizes the virtue of living a life of honest work and good deeds, and discusses justice, wrongdoing, and social conduct. see all copies from $4.89! new only from $14.79! \| SVS
11	Theogony more books like this by Hesiod add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
12	Opera: Volume I: Iliad, Books I-XII more books like this by Homer, T W Allen (Editor), D B Monro (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $40.90! \| SVS
13	The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry more books like this by Andrew D Morrison add to wishlist The Greek poetry of the Hellenistic period is among the most important and influential literature of antiquity. This book examines how the three most significant Hellenistic poets (Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius) deal with their own poetic inheritance from earlier Greek poetry. see all copies from $94.19! new only from $94.19!
14	Delectus Ex Iambis Et Elegis Graecis more books like this by Oxford University Press (Editor), M L West (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! new only from $42.87!
15	Poems from the Greek Anthology more books like this by Kenneth Rexroth (Translator) add to wishlist Includes poems by Sappho, Anyte, Glykon, Antipatros, Leonidas, Asklepiades, and Ammianos. see all copies from $4.40! new only from $21.54! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology more books like this by Barbara Hughes Fowler (Translator) add to wishlist The main aim of this book is to bring Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. The selection of poems reflects the wide range of poetic genres, styles, themes and moods of the period. It includes the author's translation of the complete "Argonautica" of Apollonius of Rhodes, and eight of Theocritus' "Idylls". There are translations ... see all copies from $10.75! new only from $18.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Sather Classical Lectures more books like this by Bernard Williams add to wishlist Although humanity has changed since the times of the ancient Greeks, this study claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $43.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric more books like this by Felix Budelmann (Editor) add to wishlist Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. This Companion provides an ... see all copies from $31.88! new only from $31.88! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry more books like this by James Werner Halporn add to wishlist This text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in order that the verse of the Greeks and Romans may be read as poetry. Although the Greek and Latin components are conceived as essentially independent, the arrangements of each section confirm in such a way as to facilitate the use of the two in conjunction. No comparable ... see all copies from $4.88! new only from $13.24!
20 view cover	A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets more books like this by Douglas E Gerber (Editor), C G Brown (Contributions by), B C MacLachlan (Contributions by) add to wishlist This handbook for the reading of early Greek poetry is intended to be both a manual for teachers and a guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It covers poetry in the elegaic and iambic genres, as well as melic poetry which is provisionally divided into the personal and the public. The book takes a critical look at scholarly trends ... see all copies from $68.39! new only from $144.71!
21 view cover	Archaic Greek Poetry: An Anthology more books like this by Barbara Hughes Fowler (Editor) add to wishlist With this anthology, Barbara Hughes Fowler presents a comprehensive selection of Greek poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries BC. Fowler's translations provide access to six Homeric hymns, eight selections from Bakchylides, 11 odes of Pindar, selections from the iambicists and elegists, virtually all of Archilochos and of the lyricists, including ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Modern Greek Poetry more books like this by Kimon Friar add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.95! \| first editions
23	The Iliad, the Ramayana, and the Work of Religion: Failed Persuasion and Religious Mystification more books like this by Gregory D Alles add to wishlist This text examines how two epics from different cultures, the "Iliad" and the "Ramayana", were evoked by and acted upon by their respective societies. It also examines the role of literary "persuasion" in maintaining harmonious social interaction and in religious mystification. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Sappho and Alcaeus: An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Lesbian Poetry more books like this by Denys L Page add to wishlist see all copies from $35.00! new only from $61.04! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation more books like this by Sherod Santos (Translator) add to wishlist This collection of classical lyric poems, translated by Sherod Santos, answers Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mandate that 'The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation ...with one more possession of beauty'. And indeed, the reader finds here the plenty of the gods in poems of freshness, vigour, ... see all copies from $4.64! new only from $6.31! \| first editions \| SVS

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