Epigrams from the Greek Anthology - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gideon Nisbet (Editor)Series:Oxford World's ClassicsPublish date:2021-02-01Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198854654ISBN-10:019885465XUPC:9780198854654Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient, Classical & MedievalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCRQ271PW1
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire,
But now another has him in his net -
Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . .
Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up a millennium of snapshots from ancient daily life. Its influence echoes not merely in the classic tradition of the English epigram (Pope, Dryden) but in...
But now another has him in his net -
Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . .
Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up a millennium of snapshots from ancient daily life. Its influence echoes not merely in the classic tradition of the English epigram (Pope, Dryden) but in...
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198854654ISBN-10:019885465XUPC:9780198854654Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient, Classical & MedievalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SCRQ271PW1
Gideon Nisbet is Reader in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He researches and teaches in ancient literature, particularly epigram, and its reception in the modern world. His previous OUP publications include Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire (2003), Greek Epigram in Reception (2013), and, also in the Oxford World's Classics, Martial: Epigrams, with Parallel Latin Text (2015).
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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