Greek Lyric Poetry

The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.—greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides—produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, and reflected all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. Not merely a ...