The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse

Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now available

Composed between the early-agricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry is as densely rich in formal interrelation and allusion as anything we know in English verse.