The Song of Eros: Ancient Greek Love Poems by Claudette Sherbert LITTLE, Bradley P. Nystrom
By Claudette Sherbert LITTLE, Bradley P. Nystrom
This choice of new translations of 80 poems presents a delightful, thought-provoking reminder of love’s vagaries as captured throughout the wit, allure, and perception of the grasp poets of antiquity. All the feelings and stories linked to love—rejection, infatuation, ecstasy, desperation, loneliness—are rendered available to modern readers via this full of life, sleek, but trustworthy English translation of works that date from the 7th century B.C. to the 6th century A.D. Illustrations accompany the poetry of Plato, Sappho, Stratto, Meleagros, and others, shooting either the flavour of the age and the topic of the texts.
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My good friend and teacher, Professor Stylianos Spyridakis of the University of California at Davis, gave me encouragement just when it was needed. Finally, my wife, Jennifer, read the translations in many stages of revision and made useful suggestions for their improvement. Page 2 Page 3 1 Meleagros In the name of Love, I swear that I would rather hear Heliodora's whisper in my ear than the shining harp of Apollo. Page 4 Page 5 2 Sappho The moon is down, and the Pleiades. It's midnight, time passes, and I lie alone.
Even Menophila, who used to call you her cutie and her darling Adonis, now asks who you are and where you're from. " Page 71 55 Palladas of Alexandria Zenon, war has broken out in your house because you married the daughter of Protomachos (first in a fight) and Nikomache (victorious in a fight). What you need is a helpful adulterer, a Lysimachos (deliverer from a fight) who will take pity on you and deliver you from Andromache (man-fighter), the daughter of Protomachos. Page 72 56 Meleagros It must have been Eros himself who sharpened Heliodora's fingernail; even her gentlest love-scratching pierces my heart.
He spent much of the latter part of his life in Athens. One of the most important and influential of early Greek poets, he wrote six books of poetry. C. Antiphilos specialized in writing epigrams and contributed some fifty poems to the Greek Anthology. C. Legend says the nobleman Lykambes promised him his daughter, Neoboule, but then reneged. Archilochos took his revenge by writing such effective satir- Page 106 ical poems about Lykambes and his family that they eventually committed suicide. C.