Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Anacreon’s life and works
* Features the complete fragments of Anacreon, preserved in the writings of other ancient authors, in both English translation and the original Greek
* Concise introduction to the fragments
* Includes J. M. Edmonds’s translation of the fragments, previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library edition
* Also features multiple translations of the ‘Anacreontea’ — a Hellenic collection of odes inspired by Anacreon’s poetry and traditionally ascribed to the poet
* The Romantic poet Thomas Moore’s celebrated 1800 translation
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the fragments you want to read with individual contents tables
* Features a bonus biography — discover Anacreon’s ancient world
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Translations
Fragments of Anacreon (1924)
Anacreontea (Moore translation, 1800)
Anacreontea (Bourne translation, 1844)
Anacreontea (Edmonds translation, 1931)
The Greek Texts
List of Greek Texts
The Biography
Life of Anacreon (1924) by J. M. Edmonds
