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Cut These Words into My Stone

- Ancient Greek Epitaphs
Engelsk Hardback

Cut These Words into My Stone

- Ancient Greek Epitaphs
Engelsk Hardback
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The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society.

Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones.

Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well,
Was drawn down by his own silent reflection.

His mother, afraid he had no breath left,
Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little.

He didn''t taint the nymphs'' deep home.
He dozed off in her lap. He''s sleeping still.

These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word.

Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

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The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society.

Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones.

Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well,
Was drawn down by his own silent reflection.

His mother, afraid he had no breath left,
Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little.

He didn''t taint the nymphs'' deep home.
He dozed off in her lap. He''s sleeping still.

These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word.

Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781421408033
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1421408031
Kategori: Genealogi, heraldik og navnehistorie
Udg. Dato: 28 mar 2013
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 147mm
Højde: 224mm
Forlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Oplagsdato: 28 mar 2013
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Kategori Genealogi, heraldik og navnehistorie

ISBN-13 9781421408033

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 147mm

Højde 224mm

Udg. Dato 28 mar 2013

Oplagsdato 28 mar 2013

Forlag Johns Hopkins University Press