[PDF.87mw] Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides

Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides

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 | #3682198 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  1998-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.38 x5.51l,.63 | File type: PDF | 104 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent translation|By Customer|First off, I am not a classics scholar. In fact, I don't speak or read ancient Greek. That said, I find Slavitt's Bacchylides very accessible as poetry.

The other chief recent translator of Bacchylides is Robert Fagles. I find his translations interesting though a bit dense and murky, much like reading modern poetry like Ezra Pound.| ||"Slavitt has an astonishing knack for making classical poetry readable and, above all, experienceable. . . . [He] seems to have a free and easy—and very personal—conversance with the ancient world, and this is refreshing indeed; it makes that whol

Until a century ago, the fifth-century Greek poet Bacchylides was known only by 107 nonsequential lines buried as quotations in the writings of other ancient authors. With the discovery in 1896 of a papyrus containing his work, 1,382 lines were reassembled and the poems of Bacchylides finally began to take shape for the modern reader. Slavitt argues in the Introduction to this collection that, although Bacchylides is often considered a "lesser Pindar," he is a poet wh...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides   |  From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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