Introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert Also included is an introduction offering a brief account of the poets, as well as explanatory notes on the texts.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. Pindar and Bacchylides) and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. Not merely a selection, it covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments (apart from the works of This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. Personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. Their poetry was perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, and reflected all the joys and anxieties of their His many publications include Ancient Greek Music (OUP, 1992), The East Face of Helicon (OUP, 1997), and Indo-European Poetry and Myth (OUP, 2007).
The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.-greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides-produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Martin Litchfield West was an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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