7 Greeks
7 Greeks. Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, Herondas. Translations by Guy Davenport. New York: New Directions, 1995. (New Directions Paperbook 799).
"Versions of these translations have appeared before:
- Archilochos in the magazines Poetry and Arion
- and as a book, Carmina Archilochi (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964);
- Sappho: Songs and Fragments (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1965);
- Alkman in Arion (Winter 1969).
- Lukas Foss and Richard Swift have separately set some of the Archilochos fragments to music, and Swift has made a song of Alkman's 'The valleys are asleep and the mountaintops.'
- Anakreon was first published in Conjunctions: 6
- and as a book by the University of Alabama Parallel Editions, 1991.
- Herakleitos and Diogenes and The Mimes of Herondas were published by Grey Fox Press, 1979 and 1981 respectively." (verso title page).
"First published as New Directions Paperbook 799 in 1995." (verso t-p).
Contents:
- Introduction
- Archilochos (7th century BC)
- Sappho (7th century BC)
- Alkman (7th century BC)
- Anakreon (6th century BC)
- Herakleitos (5th century BC)
- Diogenes (5th century BC)
- Herondas (3rd century BC)
- Notes
Cover grave relief: Girl with Pigeons. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York]
Marble grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450–440 B.C.; Classical Greek -- Fletcher Fund, 1927 (27.45) See URL < http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp > under 'Collection Highlights' then under 'Greek and Roman Art'
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