The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present

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Author: Peter Constantine

ISBN-10: 0393060837

ISBN-13: 9780393060836

Category: Ancient Greek Poetry

"The Greek Poets is a celebration of Western civilization's oldest poetic tradition. It is a landmark volume that presents three millennia of Greek poetry - over 1,000 poems by 185 poets - much of which has been neglected or untranslated in the past." "Divided into four eras, each with an introduction by the volume's editors, The Greek Poets opens with "Classical Antiquity." Embracing more than the heroic epics of Homer, the didactic verse of Hesiod, and Homeric Hymns, it includes numerous...

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Three thousand years of the greatest Greek poetry, exquisitely translated and assembled in a handsome volume sure to be a modern classic.

\ Philadelphia Inquirer“You can't do better than this . . . a rich, long draft of the greatest unbroken poetic tradition in the Western World.”\ \