Greek Lyric: A Selection

by Felix Budelmann

Book Overview

The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity. This edition gathers poems by seven of the nine canonical lyricists (Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides), as well as a number of carmina popularia and carmina...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521633095
• ISBN13: 9780521633093
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"