Complete poems
By: Bacchylides ; translated  with a note to the new edition by Robert Fagles ; with a foreword by Sir Maurice Bowra ; introduction and notes by Adam M. Parry.
Contributors: Fagles, Robert.; Parry, Adam.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Bacchylides -- Translations into English.; Laudatory poetry, Greek -- Translations into English.; Odes -- Translations into English.; Athletics -- Greece -- Poetry.; Games -- Greece -- Poetry.
Description: "Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden Age Greece. The poems are brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles, recently hailed by Garry Wills in the New Yorker as "the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English." First published in 1961, the book now includes a new translator's note by Fagles."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-123).
Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1961. With new translator's note.