{"product_id":"puerilities-erotic-epigrams-of-the-greek-anthology-9780691088204","title":"Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of the Greek Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eElegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms \u003ci\u003ePuerilities\u003c\/i\u003e, comprise most of the twelfth book of \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. That book, the so-called \u003ci\u003eMusa Puerilis\u003c\/i\u003e, is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English. It is a delightful eroticopia of short poems by great and lesser-known Greek poets, spanning hundreds of years, from ancient times to the late Christian era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The epigrams--wry, wistful, lighthearted, libidinous, and sometimes bawdy--revel in the beauty and fickle affection of boys and young men and in the fleeting joys of older men in loving them. Some, doubtless bandied about in the lax and refined setting of banquets, are translated as limericks. Also included are a few fine and often funny poems about girls and women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fashion changes in morality as well as in poetry. The sort of attachment that inspired these verses was considered perfectly normal and respectable for over a thousand years. Some of the very best Greek poets--including Strato of Sardis, Theocritus, and Meleager of Gadara--are to be found in these pages. The more than two hundred fifty poems range from the lovely to the playful to the ribald, but all are, as an epigram should be, polished and elegant. The Greek originals face the translations, enhancing the volume's charm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A friend of Youth, I have no youth in mind, \u003cbr\u003e For each has beauties, of a different kind.\u003cbr\u003e --Strat? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I've had enough to drink; my heart and soul\u003cbr\u003e As well as tongue are losing self-control.\u003cbr\u003e The lamp flame bifurcates; I multiply\u003cbr\u003e The dinner guests by two each time I try.\u003cbr\u003e Not only shaken up by the wine-waiter, \u003cbr\u003e I ogle too the boy who pours the water.\u003cbr\u003e --Strat? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Venus, denying Cupid is her son, \u003cbr\u003e Finds in Antiochus a better one.\u003cbr\u003e This is the boy to be enamored of, \u003cbr\u003e Boys, a new love superior to Love.\u003cbr\u003e --Meleager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daryl Hine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.46w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691088204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/21\/2001 pg. 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaryl Hine\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fourteen collections of original poetry, three plays, a novel, and nonfiction prose, as well as translations from the Greek and Latin classics, including the Homeric Hymns and the works of Theocritus and Ovid. He was editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e from 1968 to 1978 and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award, and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087128703091,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_496ec043-b1ff-498d-bff6-928160b88b3d.jpg?v=1652538391","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/puerilities-erotic-epigrams-of-the-greek-anthology-9780691088204","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}