Complete Poems

by Bacchylides and Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Book Overview

Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden Age Greece. The poems are brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles, recently hailed by Garry Wills in the New Yorker as "the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300075529
• ISBN13: 9780300075526
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"