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Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

1890

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Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

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1890

Classics of Literature, Poetry

Translated by J. W. (John William) Mackail

For over a thousand years, Greek poets distilled love, death, wit, and longing into tiny perfect forms. This anthology gathers the finest of those gems: epigrams carved on tombstones, scrawled on wine cups, pasted onto temple walls, and passed hand to hand through the Byzantine age. Some are just four lines. Some are barely two. But each one has been polished until it shines. You'll find a soldier's epitaph that packs a whole war's grief into twelve syllables. A love poem that makes modern sonnets feel bloated. A joke about poets that's still funny two millennia later. Mackail's selections move from the classical period through late antiquity, gathering voices that learned to say everything that mattered in the smallest possible space. The original Greek sits beside English translations that honor the originals' compression. This is not a book to read straight through. It's a book to keep beside your bed, to return to when you want one perfect thing, a small sharp poem that contains an entire human moment.

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