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7 Greeks by Guy Davenport (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811212882

ISBN-139780811212885

eBay Product ID (ePID)632839

Product Key Features

Book Title7 Greeks

Number of Pages242 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicAnthologies (Multiple Authors), Ancient & Classical

GenrePoetry

AuthorGuy Davenport

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-004227

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsDavenport has made us again discover that the Greeks, who gave us most of our culture, are our most lively, poignant, humorous, and profound writers whom we should read today as contemporaries....His exciting original versions are appropriately an immediate modern classic., Davenports' Pleiad of Greeks-four poets, two philosophers, and a less familiar composer of rakish mimes-provides a vivid insight into the heart and mind of a Greece still rising, in the brilliant of these poets, to its Periclean apogee., Davenports' Pleiad of Greeks--four poets, two philosophers, and a less familiar composer of rakish mimes--provides a vivid insight into the heart and mind of a Greece still rising, in the brilliant of these poets, to its Periclean apogee., If you don't read Greek, read Davenport; if you do, read Davenport and learn to read Greek better.

Dewey Decimal881/.0108

Synopsis"Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language."--Anne Carson, Here 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.

LC Classification NumberPA3621.A13 1995