Complete Poems - Softcover

Bacchylides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300075529 ISBN 13: 9780300075526

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden Age Greece. The poems are brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles, recently hailed by Garry Wills in the New Yorker as "the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English." First published in 1961, the book now includes a new translator's note by Fagles.
"[Fagles] has produced a work which is at once a faithful translation of Bacchylides in the fullest sense and something which stands and lives in its own right as a work of art."―Sir Maurice Bowra, from the Foreword
"Fagles has created . . . a musical and craftsmanly series of verses. As a translator, Fagles has the merits of . . . keeping the lilting rhythms of Bacchylides alive in one's ear . . . and unearthing metaphors behind faded Greek words, of splitting the strings of compound adjectives into pungent clauses which lose nothing in color but make coordinated English."―Emily Vermeule, American Journal of Philology
"The beauty, richness, and classic quality of Mr. Fagles's unrhymed verse make this translation a creative work and a valuable contribution to English letters."―Rae Dalven, Poetry

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek

Review:

Cassandra's Vision
Chiron
Crown That Flames
Dance-song (1)
Dance-song (2)
Dance-song (3)
Ednonds: 53
Encomium (1)
Encomium (2)
Encomium For Hiero Of Syracuse
Encomium To Alexander Son Of Amyntas
Epigram: 1
Epigram: 2
Excellence Showered With Praise
Fleeing The Floodtide Sea
The Gifts Of The Muses
God Dooms Only A Few
Heracles - For The Delphians
Hymn
Hymn To Hecate
Idas - For The Lacedaemonians
Io - For The Athenians
Isthmian Ode For Aglaus Of Athens (foot Race)
Isthmian Ode For Argeius Of Ceos (boys' Boxing Match) (1)
Isthmian Ode For Argeius Of Ceos (boys' Boxing Match) (2)
Leucippides
Love Song (1)
Love Song (2)
Love Song (3)
Manifests Pure Gold
Memphis Spared By Snow
Men Can Maneuver No Hold
Nemean Ode For Automedes Of Phlius (pentathlon)
Nemean Ode For Pytheas Of Aegina (pancratium)
Nemean Ode For Teisias Of Aegina (wrestling Match)
Never Underhand
None Holds Joy
Not Unseated
Numberless Bents
Olympian Ode For Hiero Of Syracuse (four-horse Chariot Race)
Olympian Ode For Hiero Of Syracuse (horse Race)
Olympian Ode For Lachon Of Ceos (boys' Foot Race) (1)
Olympian Ode For Lachon Of Ceos (boys' Foot Race) (2)
Olympian Ode For Liparion Of Ceos
Only Truth And The Gods
Paean (1)
Paean (2)
Paean (3)
Pasiphae
Petraean Ode For Cleoptolemus Of Thessaly (horse Race)
Processional (1)
Processional (2)
Pythian Ode For Alexidamus Of Metapontion (boys' Wrestling Match)
Pythian Ode For Aristoteles Of Larisa (horse Race)
Pythian Ode For Hiero Of Syracuse (four-horse Chariot Race)
The Sons Of Antenor, Or Helen Demanded Back
Theseus, Or Tribute To The Minotaur - For The Ceans On Delos
Thesus
Victory Ode
The Way Is Wide
Wraith Of The Man Of Ithaca
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0300075529
• ISBN 13: 9780300075526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152