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Bacchylides; Fagles, Robert; Parry, Adam

 
9780300075526: Complete Poems

Synopsis

Translated choral odes which celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean and Olympic games, and chronicle the classical gods and heroes of golden age Greece. Atmospheric, stirring stuff from the nephew of Simonides.

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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 best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English". First published in 1961, the book now includes a new translator's note by Fagles.

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