Poems from the Greek Anthology

Here Are 134 poems From The Greek Anthology, a collection of some 4,000 poems assembled by Byzantine scholars. The poems range from the seventh century BC through to the renaissance of Greek culture in Byzantium in the sixth century AD. Some of the pieces are by the greatest names in Greek poetry, others are by obscure poets, and still others are anonymous.

"...These poems are epigrams, mostly in elegiac meter, and they are impish and indecorous, but there is an insight into the Greek spirit and experience that one doesn't get anywhere else. You need Homer and Aeschylus and Sophocles, but you need these, too, if only to learn how to laugh in Greek."-Translator's Preface, Poems from the Greek Authology

David R. Slavitt is the translator and coeditor. He taught at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

DAVID R. SLAVITT has translated Ovid, Virgil, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes, as well as works in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Hebrew. He is coeditor of the Johns Hopkins Complete Roman Drama in Translation series and the Penn Greek Drama series. His most recent works of his own poetry include The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems and Change of Address: Poems, New and Selected.