Research Catalog

Title

Acts of love : ancient Greek poetry from Aphrodite's garden / selected and translated by George Economou ; introduction by Wendy Doniger.

Author

Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C.

Publication

New York : Modern Library, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Economou, George.

Description

xxiii, 137 pages : map; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Epigrammata. English

Alternative Title

Epigrammata.

Subject

• Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C. > Translations into English
• Love poetry, Greek > Translations into English
• Epigrams, Greek > Translations into English

Note

• "Previously published in Philodemos, his twenty-nine extant poems ... the Perishable Press, 1983"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-137).

Contents

Anakreon -- Archilochos -- Sappho -- from The Greek anthology -- from The garland of Meleagros (early first century B.C.) -- Alkaios -- Asklepiades -- Dioskorides -- Hedylos -- Kallimachos -- Meleagros -- Nossis -- Plato -- Poseidippos -- Rhianos -- from The garland of Philippos of Thessalonika (early first century A.D.) -- Antiphilos -- Automedon -- Bassus -- Diodoros -- Krinagoras -- Maccius -- Marcus Argentarius -- Philodemos -- from The cycle of agathias scholastikos (mid-sixth century A.D.) -- Agathias Scholastikos -- Leontios -- Makedonios Hypatos -- Palladas -- Paulos Silentiarius -- Rufinus Domesticus -- Other poets in the Greek anthology -- Archias -- Capito -- Dionysios Sophistes -- Diophanes of Myrina -- Gallus -- Killaktor -- Nikarchos -- Noumenios of Tarsos -- Rufinus -- Skythinos -- Straton -- Anonymous poems.

ISBN

0679643281

LCCN

2005050134

OCLC

• OCM60669138
• SCSB-5223341

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries