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Greek Anthology: Volume I: book 1: Christian Epigrams by W. R. Paton
$69.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original collection, called The Garland (Stephanus) by its contributing editor, Meleager of Gadara (first century BCE), ...Show more
Greek Lyric - The New School of Poetry and Anonymous Songs and Hymns by David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
$47.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Towards the end of the fifth century BCE Aristophanes and the other writers of comedy used contemporary poets and musicians as targets for their jokes, making fun of their innovations in language and music. The dithyrambs of Melanippides, Cinesias, Phrynis, Timotheus, and Philoxenus are remarkable examp ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus by Sappho; Alcaeus; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testi ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman by Anacreon; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotatio ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others by Stesichorus; Ibycus; Simonides; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"--a recognition of his epic themes and noble style. He composed verses about the Trojan War and its aftermath, the Argonauts, the adventures of ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume IV: Bacchylides, Corinna, and Others by Bacchylides; Corinna; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Bacchylides, nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar, wrote choral poetry of many types. We have a number of his victory odes--poems celebrating victories in athletic contests--as well as dithyrambs and other hymns. He was a master of the captivating narrative. Also represented in this volume is the Boe ...Show more
Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer by Martin L. West
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Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer." This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymn ...Show more
Iliad: Books 13-24 by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain of ...Show more
Odyssey: v.2 by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
A show stopper a classic work: the edition translated by A.T. Murray that is cited in BCL3 (this revision is by by George E. Dimock). This set is in the handy, even cuddly, standard Loeb...Library format (4.5 x 6.5). The facing Greek and English text is crisply printed on soothing off-white paper,
Select Papyri, Volume I: Private Documents by A. S. Hunt (Translator); C. C. Edgar (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This is the first of two volumes giving a selection of Greek papyri relating to private and public business. They cover a period from before 300 BCE to the eighth century CE. Most were found in rubbish heaps or remains of ancient houses or in tombs in Egypt. From such papyri we get much information abou ...Show more
The Iliad: v.1 by Homer
$47.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain of ...Show more
The Odyssey: v.1 by Homer
$41.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BCE) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus s journey home from the Trojan War and the temptations, delays, and dangers he faced at every turn.