Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
An Anthology of New Translations
Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
An Anthology of New Translations
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This second edition has been re-edited with both revised and new translations and an updated commentary and bibliography for readers in a new century, ensuring that this much-valued anthology remains useful and relevant a new generation of students studying ancient literature and western civilization.
"This revised volume is now an even more valuable resource for anyone wanting to teach Latin lyric and elegiac poetry in translation. The translations are accurate and reliable, and with the expanded coverage of poems, instructors have more choice about which authors and poems to read. The notes are detailed and rich in useful information about the ancient context and original language and have been updated to take account of shifts in the scholarship. The addition of a list of secondary readings for each poet will aid students writing papers. The quality and combination of features make this an outstanding choice."
- Ruth Caston, University of Michigan, USA
"This revised volume is now an even more valuable resource for anyone wanting to teach Latin lyric and elegiac poetry in translation. The translations are accurate and reliable, and with the expanded coverage of poems, instructors have more choice about which authors and poems to read. The notes are detailed and rich in useful information about the ancient context and original language and have been updated to take account of shifts in the scholarship. The addition of a list of secondary readings for each poet will aid students writing papers. The quality and combination of features make this an outstanding choice."
Ruth Caston, University of Michigan, USA
Diane J. Rayor is Professor of Classics at Grand Valley State University, USA, in the department that she co-founded in 2000. She has published six book translations of ancient Greek poetry and drama: Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (2014), the first book to include recent Sappho discoveries; Euripides’ “Medea” (2013); Sophocles’ “Antigone” (2011); Homeric Hymns; Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece; and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo). Helen and Hecuba are joining the line-up after her stint as a Roe Green Visiting Theater Artist for 2018–19 at the University of Colorado, USA, for the production of Hecuba.
William W. Batstone is Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has published widely on the authors of the Republic and Triumviral period, including Plautus, Catullus, Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, and Vergil. He is the co-author of Caesar’s Civil Wars (with Cynthia Damon), has translated (with introduction and commentary) Sallust’s Catiline’s Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, and Histories, and edited or co-edited several volumes including Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature (with Garth Tissol). He is currently working on the Oxford Readings in Sallust (with Andrew Feldherr) and his article on Sulpicia, “Sulpicia and the Speech of Men,” a complement to and extension of the notes here, has recently been published.