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A review of Eleni Sikelianos's 'You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek)'

And I then came to Karthage. This is, truly, a blinding opportunity. And it will fall, but the book, in the severing action of its detailing, will not:

Seventeen ancient poems, translated from Greek and Latin by Thomas McEvilley


EPC Digital Library

See also McEvlilley's Sappho

SEVENTEEN ANCIENT POEMS
Translated from Greek and Latin by Thomas McEvilley

Meleager of Gadara
    Raising the Alarm
    Meleager Commiserates with His Soul
    Meleager Addresses His Servant Dorkas
    Meleager Speaks to a Honey Bee
    Instructions for Meleager’s Burial
    Meleager Reproaches the Dawn
    Meleager Reproaches the Dawn Again
    An Address to the Bedside Lamp
    Meleager Writes a Poem for the Police
    Meleager Puzzled

 

Philodemus of Alexandria

     Philodemus Reforms
     Philodemus Reforms Again

 

Anakreontea

      Invocation
      Night Vision
      Anacreon Speaks to the Ladies
     Anacreon’s Grave

Horace

       Strategy for Living

 

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