The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse

The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse 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 its ambition and thrilling in scope.<>

Info autore

Glenn W. Most (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.

Christopher Childers (anthology Editor, translator) studied Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and poetry at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches Latin, coaches squash and tennis, and watches over his pet fish and budgies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Christopher Childers (Editore), Childers Christopher (Editore), Glenn W. Most (Introduzione), Glenn W. Most (Postfazione), Childers Christopher (Traduzione), Christopher Childers (Traduzione)
• Autori: Glenn W Most, Christopher Childers, Glenn W. Most, No author
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 27.03.2025
• Categoria: Libri scolastici; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9780141392134
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139213-4
• Numero di pagine: 1’008
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13 x 19.8 x 4.2 cm
• Categorie: Roman, Homer, Ovid, Euripides, Sappho, Classics, Poetry, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, Rome, Roman Empire, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Greek, Greece, Poems, Stephen Fry, Anne Carson, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Penguin Classics, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient Greek style, Ancient Roman style, Lyric / Lyrical styles, Catullus, Song of Achilles, Horace, English poetry, poetry books, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Twelve Caesars, the illiad, sapians, ovid metamorphoses, pat barker the silence of the girls, plato republic, a thousand ships natalie haynes, women and power mary beard, the wolf den elodie harper, pandoras jar natalie haynes, pat barker the women of troy, the persians aeschylus