Year: 2001
Author: Daryl H.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0-691-08820-9
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 128

Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English. It is a delightful eroticopia of short poems by great and lesser-known Greek poets, spanning hundreds of years, from ancient times to the late Christian era.
The epigrams—wry, wistful, lighthearted, libidinous, and sometimes bawdy—revel in the beaity and fickle affection of boys and young men and in the fleeting joys of older men in loving them. Some, doubtless bandied about in the lax and refined setting of banquets, are translated as limericks. Also included are a few fine and often funny peoms about girls and women.

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