Greek Lyric Poetry: The Poems and Fragments of the Greek Iambic, Elegiac, and Melic Poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) Down to 450 B.C.Martin Litchfield West 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 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. It is not merely a selection but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. The Introduction gives a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts will be found at the end. |
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Seventh Century Archilochus | 1 |
1 2 2 200 | 16 |
Callinus | 21 |
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Achilles Alcaeus Alcman Aphrodite Apollo Archilochus Artemis Athena Athenian battle beauty bloom bring Castor and Polydeuces century citharodes comes Cyrnus dance dark dead dear death delightful Dionysus drink earth elegiac elegy Euenus fair father Zeus favour festival fight flowers fragments garlands Geryones girls give goddess gods gold Greece Greek hair hand hard Harmodius and Aristogeiton heart heaven Heracles Hermes hero Hipponax holy horses iambic iambus immortal keep king Kronos land Leto look lord Lydian lyre man's Megara men's mighty Mimnermus mind mortal Muses never night old age once pain Pelops Pittacus poems poetry poets poverty pray round sail Sappho shield shining Simonides sing Solon song sons Sparta Spartan spear Stesichorus sweet Theognis there's things thought Thracian Timocreon town Trojans Troy turn Tyrtaeus verse wealth wind wine woman wretched young youth Zeus