Simonides
By: texts by Robert Crawford ; photographs by Norman McBeath
Contributors: McBeath, Norman
Publisher: Easel Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng; sco
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9780955285936
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Translations into Scots; Translations into English; Greek poetry
Description: Scots translations of epitaphs by the ancient Greek poet Simonides, composed for civilians and soldiers killed during the Persian Wars, coupled with black and white photographs.
Notes: Main essay in English followed by fragments of poems by Simonides in parallel Scots and English text.