Ancient Greek Lyrics [NOOK Book]

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Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of
Greek lyric poetry -- including the most complete Sappho in English, newly
translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant
poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other ...

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Overview

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of
Greek lyric poetry -- including the most complete Sappho in English, newly
translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant
poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great
singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
William E. McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the
Greek lyric while Barnstone provides a brief biographical and literary sketch for
each poet and adds a substantial introduction to Sappho -- revised for this edition
-- complete with notes and sources. A glossary and updated bibliography are
included.

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Editorial Reviews

The Classical Bulletin
"Armed with this book a teacher can more readily convince the Greekless that Greek lyric poetry was one of the supreme achievements of literary history." —The Classical Bulletin
New Letters
"There have been many translations of Sappho's work by gifted and well-meaning writers.... None quite connects the shards and fragments with the same satisfying verve and flair as Willis Barnstone. Barnstone is one of the greatest translators of literary expression from a foreign language into English." —New Letters
ForeWord
"With the work of more than seventy poets from the Greek, Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Roman periods, the distinguished translator Willis Barnstone offers us a very rich selection....William E. McCulloh’s fine introduction traces the development of the Greek lyric, while Barnstone’s notes on the poets provide valuable contexts. It is hard to conceive of a more satisfying anthology than this...." —Peter Skinner, ForeWord, Jan./Feb. 2010

— Peter Skinner

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780253003898
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publication date: 3/22/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition number: 4
  • Pages: 376
  • Sales rank: 718,277
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

Willis Barnstone is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative
Literature and Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. He has
published more than 60 books of poetry, scholarship, translation, and memoir,
including We Jews and Blacks (IUP, 2004).

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Table of Contents

Preface on Vagabond
Songsters
Acknowledgments
Introduction by William E.
McCulloh
A Note on Selections, Texts, and Translation by Willis
Barnstone

THE GREEK PERIOD
Archilochos

Kallinos
Tyrtaios
Semonides
Terpandros

Alkman
Alkaios
Sappho
Solon

Mimnermos
Phokylides
Asios
Stesichoros

Ibykos
Hipponax
Anakreon
Xenophanes

Simonides
Lasos
Theognis
Apollodoros

Hipparchos
Korinna
Telesilla
Timokreon

Lamprokles
Pindaros (Pindar)
Bakchylides

Praxilla
Parrhasios
Hippon
Melanippides

Timotheos
Platon (Plato)
THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD

Diphilos
Anyte
Kallimachos
Theokritos

Leonidas of Tarentum
Asklepiades
Mnasalkas

Theodoridas
Moschos
Ariston
Meleagros

Bion
THE ROMAN PERIOD
Philodemos the Epicurean

Diodoros
Antipatros of Thessaloniki
Marcus Argentarius

Rufinus
Apollonides
Parmenion
Nikarchos

Lucillius
Leonidas of Alexandria
Traianus (The Emperor
Trajan)
Ammianus
Loukianos (Lucian)
Dionysius
Sophistes
Julianus (Julian the Apostate)
Aisopos
THE
BYZANTINE PERIOD
Palladas
Julianus (Julian the Prefect of
Egypt)
Paulus Silentiarius
Agathias Scholastikos

Damaskios
Julianus (Julian Antecessor)
AUTHORS AND ANONYMOUS
WORKS OF INDEFINITE PERIOD
Glykon
Kallikteros

Ammonides
Diophanes of Myrina
The Anakreonteia

Miscellaneous
Folksongs
SAPPHO
Sappho: An
Introduction
Testimonia
Sources and
Notes

Glossary
Bibliography

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