Translated into an English ‘Choliambic’ Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes
by
Mrs Anna Rist
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They have since been translated into various modern languages and supplied with scholarly commentaries. This...