Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Susan Altstatt Mina Simpson

Mina Simpson

and the attraction between them is immediate and powerful

the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves

Jennifer Tyrrell

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Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Susan Altstatt Mina SimpsonLush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12. 109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up a millennium of snapshots from ancient daily life. Its influence echoes not merely in the classic tradition of the English epigram (Pope, Dryden) but in Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, Virgina Woolf, T. S. Eliot,