Sappho Alcaeus (59 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Scholar's name to ffep (A. R. Littlewood). Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock.; Loeb Classical Library No. 142; 1; 1.1 x 6.38 x 4.25 Inches; 512 pages.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testimonia, the ancients' reports on the lives and work of the two poets. The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality of what remains makes us realize the enormity of our loss. Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus. Volume II contains the work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the Anacreontea; and the earliest writers of choral poetry, notably the seventh-century Spartans Alcman and Terpander. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and other sixth-century poets are in Volume III. Bacchylides and other fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although some argue that she belongs to the third century). Volume V contains the new school of poets active from the mid-fifth to the mid-fourth century and also collects folk songs, drinking songs, hymns, and other anonymous pieces.…

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Gebunden. Condition: New. Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love, and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, were two illustrious singers of sixth-century BCE Lesbos.&Uumlber den AutorSappho and Alcaeus edited and tran.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testimonia, the ancients' reports on the lives and work of the two poets. The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality of what remains makes us realize the enormity of our loss. Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus. Volume II contains the work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the Anacreontea; and the earliest writers of choral poetry, notably the seventh-century Spartans Alcman and Terpander. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and other sixth-century poets are in Volume III. Bacchylides and other fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although some argue that she belongs to the third century). Volume V contains the new school of poets active from the mid-fifth to the mid-fourth century and also collects folk songs, drinking songs, hymns, and other anonymous pieces.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp viii, 174. Green and white dust jacket. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering at spine. ISBN: 0198140029 Endpapers have a few small marks, lightly toned pages, else clean. Very good in slightly toned, very good dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing, corrected. Works of Alcaeus & Sappho, incorporating then-new (1951) fragments from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, some quite fragmentary indeed. For serious scholars only: text in untranslated Greek; critical apparatus in Latin. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the corrected second printing, 1963; first published eight years earlier. Light wear to book, ink name, date & original price; jacket a bit rubbed with a minor scuff to the off-center spine. Text appears clean; xxxviii, 339 pages + colophon; indexes, addenda. Size: Octavo.…

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