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Ancient Greek Epigrams: Major Poets in Verse Translation

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Ancient Greek Epigrams: Major Poets in Verse Translation - Fain, Gordon L
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After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually encompassed nearly every theme we now associate with lyric poetry in English. Many of the finest are on love and would later exert a profound influence on Latin love poets and, through them, on all the poetry of Europe and the West. This volume offers a representative selection of the best Greek epigrams in original verse ...

Ancient Greek Epigrams: Major Poets in Verse Translation 2010, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520265806

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