{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-greek-and-latin-lyric-verse-isbn-9780141392134","title":"The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003eA window onto the past, full of fire and life: two immortal traditions as the English language has never seen them before\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; priestesses and warriors; teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; drunkards and brawlers; grumpy old men and chic young things. They speak of hopes, fears, loves, losses, triumphs and humiliations. Every one of them lived and died between 1,900 and 2,800 years ago. \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse\u003c\/i\u003e is a volume without precedent. It brings together the best of two traditions normally treated in isolation, and in doing so tells a captivating story about how literary book-culture emerged out of a society structured by song. The classical vision of lyric poetry as practised by the greatest ancient poets - Sappho and Horace, Bacchylides and Catullus - mingles and interacts with our expansive modern understanding of the lyric as the brief, personal, emotional poetry of a human soul laid bare. Anyone looking for a picture of what ancient poets were up to when they weren't composing national epics, manuals in verse or pieces for the tragic or comic stage - when they were instead singing to the gods, or to their friends, or otherwise opening little verbal windows into their life and times - can find it here. It is a magisterial accomplishment, astonishing in its ambition and thrilling in scope.\u003ci\u003eNote on Lyric\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Preface\u003cbr\u003eNote on Meters\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Text(s)\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTHE ARCHAIC PERIOD\u003cbr\u003eArchilochus\u003cbr\u003eSemonides of Amorgos\u003cbr\u003eCallinus\u003cbr\u003eTyrtaeus\u003cbr\u003eMimnermus\u003cbr\u003eAlcman\u003cbr\u003eSappho\u003cbr\u003eAlcaeus\u003cbr\u003eSolon\u003cbr\u003eTheognis and the \u003ci\u003eTheognidea\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePhocylides\u003cbr\u003eDemodocus\u003cbr\u003eStesichorus\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Geryon\u003cbr\u003eHelen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eTheban Saga\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSack of Troy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIbycus\u003cbr\u003eAnacreon\u003cbr\u003eXenophanes\u003cbr\u003eHipponax\u003cbr\u003eSimonides\u003cbr\u003eLyrics\u003cbr\u003eElegies\u003cbr\u003eEpigrams\u003cbr\u003ePindar\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlympian Odes\u003cbr\u003ePythian Odes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFragments from Other Genres\u003cbr\u003eBacchylides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CLASSICAL PERIOD\u003cbr\u003eTimocreon of Rhodes\u003cbr\u003eIon of Chios\u003cbr\u003ePraxilla\u003cbr\u003eCorinna\u003cbr\u003eTimotheus\u003cbr\u003eAriphron of Sicyon\u003cbr\u003ePhiloxenus\u003cbr\u003e'Plato'\u003cbr\u003eAristotle\u003cbr\u003eAristonous of Corinth\u003cbr\u003ePhilodamus of Scarphea\u003cbr\u003eHermolochus\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous Classical Lyric\u003cbr\u003eFolk Songs\u003cbr\u003eScolia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOST-CLASSICAL GREEK LYRIC\u003cbr\u003eCallimachus\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eAetia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eIambi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpigrams\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTheocritus\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eGreek Anthology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEpigrams from the \u003ci\u003eGarland of Meleager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhiletas of Samos\u003cbr\u003eErinna\u003cbr\u003eAnyte\u003cbr\u003eAsclepiades\u003cbr\u003eLeonidas of Tarentum\u003cbr\u003ePhalaecus\u003cbr\u003eNossis\u003cbr\u003eHeraclitus of Halicarnassus\u003cbr\u003ePosidippus of Pella\u003cbr\u003eHedylus\u003cbr\u003eRhianus\u003cbr\u003eDioscorides\u003cbr\u003eMnasalces\u003cbr\u003eTheodoridas\u003cbr\u003eAlcaeus of Messene\u003cbr\u003eTheaetetus\u003cbr\u003eDiotimus\u003cbr\u003eTymnes\u003cbr\u003ePancrates\u003cbr\u003ePhanias\u003cbr\u003eAnipater of Sidon\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003eMeleager\u003cbr\u003eEpigrams from the \u003ci\u003eGarland of Philip\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilodemus\u003cbr\u003eCrinagoras\u003cbr\u003eErucius\u003cbr\u003eZonas\u003cbr\u003eAntipater of Thessalonica\u003cbr\u003eApollonides\u003cbr\u003eMarcus Argentarius\u003cbr\u003eBianor\u003cbr\u003eAntiphilus of Byzantium\u003cbr\u003eAutomedon\u003cbr\u003eEvenus\u003cbr\u003eMaccius\u003cbr\u003eAntiphanes of Macedonia\u003cbr\u003ePhilip of Thessalonica\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnacreontea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLATIN LYRIC\u003cbr\u003eCatullus\u003cbr\u003ePolymetric Poems\u003cbr\u003eLonger Poems\u003cbr\u003eElegies and Epigrams\u003cbr\u003eVirgil\u003cbr\u003eTibullus\u003cbr\u003ePropertius\u003cbr\u003eSulpicia\u003cbr\u003eThe 'Sulpicia Elegist'\u003cbr\u003eSulpicia\u003cbr\u003eHorace\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpodes\u003cbr\u003eOdes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOvid\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmores\u003cbr\u003eTristia\u003cbr\u003eLetters from Pontus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eStatius\u003cbr\u003eMartial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterword: What is Lyric?\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Genres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of Poets\u003cbr\u003eIndex of First Lines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThematic Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlenn W. Most\u003c\/b\u003e (afterword, introducer) teaches Classics and related fields in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago; until 2020 he was Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Childers\u003c\/b\u003e (anthology Editor, translator) studied Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and poetry at Johns Hopkins University. 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