7 Greeks

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ISBN-10: 0811212882
ISBN-13: 9780811212885
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/17/1995
Dimensions: 7.98" L, 5.22" W, 0.72" H

7 Greeks

Translated byGuy Davenport

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Price: $17.95

Overview

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.

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Davenport 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.–Willis Barnstone
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811212882
ISBN-13: 9780811212885
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/17/1995
Dimensions: 7.98" L, 5.22" W, 0.72" H
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