Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse

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Plt;bPgt;A window onto the past, full of fire and life: two immortal traditions as the English language has never seen them beforePlt;/bPgt;

Plt;bPgt;SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZEPlt;BRPgt;LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARDPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; priestesses and warriors; teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; drunkards and brawlers; grumpy old men and chic young things. They speak of hopes, fears, loves, losses, triumphs and humiliations. Every one of them lived and died between 1,900 and 2,800 years ago.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;iPgt;The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse Plt;/iPgt;is a volume without precedent. It brings together the best of two traditions normally treated in isolation, and in doing so tells a captivating story about how literary book culture emerged out of a society structured by song. The classical vision of lyric poetry as practised by the greatest ancient poets - Sappho and Horace, Bacchylides and Catullus - mingles and interacts with our expansive modern understanding of the lyric as the brief, personal, emotional poetry of a human soul laid bare.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Anyone looking for a picture of what ancient poets were up to when they werenP#39;t composing national epics, manuals in verse or pieces for the tragic or comic stage - when they were instead singing to the gods, or to their friends, or otherwise opening little verbal windows into their life and times - can find it here. It is a magisterial accomplishment, astonishing its ambition and thrilling in scope.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141392134
Published: February 2025

Number of pages: 1008
Width: 128 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 44 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd