Cut These Words Into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe is a poet, author, documentary film producer, and president of Unity Productions Foundation, a nonprofit media organization. Wolfe is the author of many books of verse and prose, including The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca. Richard Martin is Anthony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics at Stanford University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Wolfe
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 22 Jahre
- 178 Seiten, Maße: 13,7 x 21,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Michael Wolfe
- Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 142140804X
- ISBN-13: 9781421408040
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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For something to read in normal circumstances? Today it's Michael Wolfe's wondrous set of translations of ancient Greek epitaphs, Cut These Words into My Stone. A book Keats would deeply appreciate. A book to keep handy by bed or bath. -- Bill Berkson Harriet 2013 Cut These Words into my Stone is not a long book, but its short pages have a great balance between education and emotionally touching poetry. The translator's note, introduction, and chapter introductions are all deeply researched, but still accessible to a lay reader. -- Elizabeth Franklin Portland Book Review 2013
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