Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of @quot;The Greek Anthology@quot;: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology
ISBN: 9781400824083
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Erotic poetry Greek -- Translations into English; Epigrams Greek -- Translations into English;

"The ass is the metrical equivalent/ Of cash I discovered once by accident," wrote doggerel-master Strato of Sardis almost 2,000 years ago yet the wry truth of his equation still pertains. This and other such insights are freshly translated by poet and former Poetry editor Daryl Hine (Arondissements) in Purilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology, originally compiled in the court of Hadrian. The 258 pithy and dirty poems of the Anthology's Book XII are presented with Greek en face, and Hine's turns of phrase should turn a few heads: "I give back love for love and hate for hate," wrote one anonymous poet, "completely ignorant of neither state." ( June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Daryl Hine is the author of fourteen collections of original poetry, three plays, a novel, and nonfiction prose, as well as translations from the Greek and Latin classics, including the Homeric Hymns and the works of Theocritus and Ovid. He was editor of Poetry from 1968 to 1978 and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award, and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

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