Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2009 Douglas E.

Skip to main content Save 15 through Sunday. The poems and fragments of the Greek iambic, elegiac, and melic poets (excluding Pindarand Bacchylides) down to 450 B.C. We have new and used copies available, in 4 editions - starting at 2.59. The City of Fawn Creek is located in the State of Kansas. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Buy Greek Lyric Poetry by M L West (Translator) online at Alibris. Lycambes did not fancy Archilochus as a son-in-law, and Archilochus' verse lampooned him and his two daughters so viciously that, according to the legend, they hanged themselves. The Introduction gives a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts will be found at the end. West, Greek Lyric Poetry, (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1993): 6. It is not merely a selection but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. Greek Melic Poets (London 1900) Note also West M.L. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. Read & Download PDF Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary Free. The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC – Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest – produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived.

Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West