Asclepiades Of Samos And Leonidas Of Tarentum: The Poems (english And Ancient Greek Edition)

This edition includes-- Introduction-- Greek text-- Commentary-- Index of proper names-- Selected bibliography-- Glossary The combined poems by these two writers scarcely exceeds 800 lines, making this volume a manageable text for an undergraduate Greek class. The epigrams convey a good sense of the Hellenistic ethos without posing daunting vocabulary problems. Asclepiades of Samos and Leonidas of Tarentum set the course that later Greek epigrammatists would follow in their choice of subject matter. To Asclepiades, the epigram was a vehicle for personal feeling; in the hands of Leonidas the field was broader, dwelling often on the suffering that attends the poor and destitute.

The combined poems by these two writers scarcely exceed 800 lines, making this volume a manageable text for an undergraduate Greek class. It is an excellent introduction to Hellenistic poetry. The epigrams convey a good sense of the Hellenistic ethos without posing some of the daunting vocabulary problems of the major authors of the period. Presents (in Greek) the epigrammatic poems of Asclepiades (focusing on personal feeling) and Leonidas (dwelling on the suffering of the poor and the destitute). The poems and commentary are presented with the idea that the detailed exploration of specific authors' corpuses will enrich the education