Poetry books set in Greece (8)
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To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition? includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles? classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebe... continue
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The Complete Poems of Sappho by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (translator) EN
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A prize-winning poet offers a contemporary translation of poems written by the greatest Greek love poet, whose thrilling lyric verse and mystique endures to be rediscovered by each generation. Original.
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides EN
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Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. Weweep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her... continue
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Come Close by Sappho EN
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Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.
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Exploring motherhood, myth, and "transhumance," Chimera is a stunningly ambitious poetry volume by the award-winning Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi
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A new verse translation by award-winning poet Alicia Stallings of one of the foundational works of ancient Greece TLS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018, selected by Rachel Hadas and Emily Wilson The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a singing contest and that after his dead body was thrown to sea, it was brought back by dolphins. His Works and Days is one of the most important early works of Greek poetry. Ostensibly written by the poet to chide his lazy brother, it recounts the story of Pandora’s box and humanity’s decline since the Golden Age, and can be read as a cele... continue
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Iltatähti, häälaulu by Sapfo FI
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Maailmankirjallisuuden suurimpiin naislyyrikoihin kuuluva kreikkalainen Sapfo eli Lesboksessa noin 630-570 eKr. Henkilönä hänestä on säilynyt niukasti tietoja; todennäköisesti hän oli aatelissukuinen, naimisissa ja ainakin yhden tyttären äiti sekä kuului naisten ja tyttöjen yhteisöön, jossa jumalien palvonnan lisäksi harjoitettiin runoutta ja tanssia. Sapfon lyriikassa, joka on vaikuttanut vahvasti länsimaiseen runouteen, on keskeisintä rakkaus - niin luontoon, elämään kuin kanssaihmisiin.
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