Some Greek Poems of Love and Beauty
Being a Selection from the Little Things of Greek Poetry Made and Translated into English

Originally published in 1937, this book presents some of the most captivating Greek poetry from antiquity on the subjects of love and beauty.

J. M. Edmonds (Author)

9781107554290, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 October 2015

78 pages
17.8 x 13 x 0.6 cm, 0.09 kg

Originally published in 1937, this book presents a selection of some of the most captivating Greek poetry from antiquity and illumines new nuances of meaning through the author's largely exclusive translations. Ranging between the dates 650 BC and AD 920, the book contains a myriad of poems all concerned with the subjects of love and beauty. There is broad range of authorship contained, encompassing the acclaimed Plato to anonymous and complete poems included as well as intelligible and intriguing fragments. Edmonds also provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems, in which he outlines their origin and ideology. This book is a must read for literature scholars and will be of considerable interest to scholars in cognate fields such as classics, philosophy and literary translation. A later publication Some Greek Poems of Love and Wine in 1939 accompanies this book.

Preface
The poets and their works
The sources of the poems
The Translations
Notes on the text
Index of poets
English index of first words
Greek index of first words.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]