The Song of Eros : ancient Greek love poems / translated by Bradley P. Nystrom ; illustrated by Claudette Sherbert Little.

Contributor(s):

Nystrom, Bradley P

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1991.Description: 1 online resource (x, 115 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585187029
9780585187020
9780809386840
0809386844

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Song of Eros.DDC classification:

881/.0108354 20

LOC classification:

PA3624.L7 S6 1991eb

Other classification:

18.43

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Summary: Annotation This collection of new translations of eighty poems provides a pleasant, thought-provoking reminder of love's vagaries as captured through the wit, charm, and insight of the master poets of antiquity. All the emotions and experiences associated with loverejection, infatuation, ecstasy, desperation, lonelinessare rendered accessible to contemporary readers through this lively, modern, yet faithful English translation of works that date from the seventh century B.C.to the sixth century A.D. Illustrations accompany the poetry of Plato, Sappho, Stratto, Meleagros, and others, capturing both the flavor of the age and the theme of the texts.

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Includes index.

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Annotation This collection of new translations of eighty poems provides a pleasant, thought-provoking reminder of love's vagaries as captured through the wit, charm, and insight of the master poets of antiquity. All the emotions and experiences associated with loverejection, infatuation, ecstasy, desperation, lonelinessare rendered accessible to contemporary readers through this lively, modern, yet faithful English translation of works that date from the seventh century B.C.to the sixth century A.D. Illustrations accompany the poetry of Plato, Sappho, Stratto, Meleagros, and others, capturing both the flavor of the age and the theme of the texts.

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