Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments (Modern Library Classics),Used

Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments (Modern Library Classics),Used

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For there is indeed something we can call the spirit of ancient Greecea carefully tuned voice that speaks out of the grave with astonishing clarity and grace , a distinctive voice that, taken as a whole, is like no other voice that has ever sung on this earth.BURTON RAFFEL, from his PrefaceFor centuries, the poetry of Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Sappho, and Archilochus has served as one of our primary means of connecting with the wholly vanished world of ancient Greece. But the works of numerous other great and prolific poetsAlkaios, Meleager, and Simonides, to name a feware rarely translated into English , and are largely unknown to modern readers. In Pure Pagan, awardwinning translator Burton Raffel brings these and many other wise and witty ancient Greek writers to an Englishspeaking audience for the first time, in full poetic flower. Their humorous and philosophical ruminations create a vivid portrait of everyday life in ancient Greece and they are phenomenally lovely as well.In short, sharp bursts of song, these twothousandyearold poems speak about the timeless matters of everyday life:Wine (Wine is the medicine / To call for, the best medicine / To drink deep, deep)History (Not us: no. / It began with our fathers, / Ive heard).Movers and shakers (If a man shakes loose stones / To make a wall with / Stones may fall on his head / Instead)Old age (Old age is a debt we like to be owed / Not one we like to collect)Frankness (Speak / As you please / And hear what can never / Please).There are also wonderful epigrams (Take what you have while you have it: youll lose it soon enough. / A single summer turns a kid into a shaggy goat) and epitaphs (Here I lie, beneath this stone, the famous woman who untied her belt for only one man).The entrancing beauty, humor, and piercing clarity of these poems will draw readers into the Greeks journeys to foreign lands, their bacchanalian parties and ferocious battles, as well as into the more intimate settings of their kitchens and bedrooms. The poetry of Pure Pagan reveals the ancient Greeks dreams, their sense of humor, sorrows, triumphs, and their most deeply held values, fleshing out our understanding of and appreciation for this fascinating civilization and its artistic legacy.From the Hardcover edition.

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