num_pages: 242
description: Here is a colorful variety of works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to later, the collection contains: Archilochos; Sappho; Alkman; Anakreon; the philosophers Herakleitos and Diogenes; and Herondas. This composite of fragments translated by Guy Davenport is the most complete collection of its kind ever to appear in one volume.
language: English
title: 7 Greeks
titlecomplete: 7 Greeks
genres: Literature, History, Classics, Greece, Ancient, Philosophy, Plays, Poetry, Anthologies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 289
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
publisher: New Directions