7 GreeksHere is a colorful variety pf works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to later, the collection contains: Archilochos; Sappho; Alkman; Anakreon; the philosophers Herakleitos and Diogenes; and Herondas. This composite of fragments translated by Guy Davenport is the most complete collection of its kind ever to appear in one volume. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
ARCHILOCHOS 7th century BC | 23 |
SAPPHO 7th century BC | 69 |
ALKMAN 7th century BC | 117 |
ANAKREON 6th century BC | 136 |
HERAKLEITOS 5th century BC | 158 |
DIOGENES 5th century BC | 172 |
HERONDAS 3rd century BC | 185 |
Notes | 231 |
Common terms and phrases
actor Agido Alkman altar Anakreon Aphródita Aphrodite Apollo Archilochos Arganthonios Aristophon Artemis Asklepios Athens Atthis Battaros beautiful Bernadette Mayer BITINNA bright bring comic dance daughter dawn dead death Demeter Diogenes Dionysos door dream dress ears Eros everything eyes father fire flowers fragment friends garlands Gastron gift girl give Glaukos goddess gods gold golden grace Greek grief GUY DAVENPORT GYLLIS Hagesikhora hair hand hear heart Herondas Hipponax holy honor hymn Kerdon knucklebones KOKKALÉ KORITTO Kottalos Kydilla KYNNO Lady Lampriskos Leophilos lines look Lord Lydian Lykambes lyre METRIKHÉ METRO METROTIMÉ mimes mind Muriel Spark Muses night Paiêon papyrus Paros Peitho poet poetry psyche Pyrrhiês rich Sappho satiric Selected Poems servant ships shoes sing slave song sweet temple Thales Thasos things Threissa tongue translation voice Whorehouse Manager wild wine woman women words young Zeus