Sappho''s Lyre - Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece

"The translations are excellent—at once literal, graceful, and idiomatic—and the poems have been selected in a way that is unparalleled in any comparable collection and is responsive to contemporary concerns."—Sheila Murnaghan, author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey

"As English poems in their own right, and as honest and sensitive transpositions of the Greek songs, these works surpass any translations of the archaic lyrists that I have seen."—John Herington, author of Poetry into Drama

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Map
Introduction

ARCHILOCHOS

ALKMAN

STESICHOROS

SAPPHO

ALKAIOS

IBYKOS

ANAKREON

SIMONI DES

KORINNA

TELESILLA

PRAXILLA

ERINNA

ANYTE

NOSSIS

MOIRO

HEDYLA

MELINNO

Abbreviations
Notes
Select Bibliography
Numeration Table

About the author

Diane Rayor is Professor in the Classics Department, Grand Valley State University, Michigan. She is co-translator, with Stanley Lombardo, of Callimachus (Johns Hopkins 1988). W. R. Johnson is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago and the author of, among other works, The Idea of Lyric (California 1982).

Summary

Presents the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets.

Product details

• Authors: Diane J. Rayor, Rayor Diane J., Sappho
• Assisted by: W.R. Johnson (Foreword), Diane Rayor (Translation), Diane J. Rayor (Translation), Rayor Diane J. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.1991
• EAN: 9780520073364
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07336-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Lesbian studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics