{"product_id":"cut-these-words-into-my-stone-9781421408040","title":"Cut These Words into My Stone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor something to read in normal circumstances? Today it's Michael Wolfe's wondrous set of translations of ancient Greek epitaphs, Cut These Words into My Stone. A book Keats would deeply appreciate. A book to keep handy by bed or bath. -- Bill Berkson Harriet Cut These Words into my Stone is not a long book, but its short pages have a great balance between education and emotionally touching poetry. The translator's note, introduction, and chapter introductions are all deeply researched, but still accessible to a lay reader. -- Elizabeth Franklin Portland Book Review This pleasing volume should introduce a new generation of general readers to the important poetic tradition of the ancient Greek grave epigram... No previous English study of quite this scope exist. Choice A wonderful short volume on Greek epitaphs which will appeal both to the general reader and the specialist... I highly recommend this book as a solid introduction to the reading and translating of Greek epigrams, and as a useful reference for illustrating how poetic translations of ancient Greek can be beautifully rendered for the modern audience while still remaining loyal to the ancient Greek use of language -- Philip J. Smith Bryn Mawr Classical Review As you turn the pages of this modest-seeming book you begin to succumb to magic. Each of these epitaphs is a poem that opens a window onto a life in Antiquity... If you wanted to find a single volume that gives a sense of the genius of the ancient Greeks, and reflects their influence on the cultural life of subsequent ages, you would be pushed to find anything better than this. -- Alex Martin The Anglo-Hellenic Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator's Note\u003cbr\u003eForeword, by Richard P. Martin\u003cbr\u003eI. Anonymous Epitaphs of No Known Date\u003cbr\u003eII. Late Archaic and Classical Periods: 600–350 BCE\u003cbr\u003eIII. Hellenistic Period: Age of Alexander, c. 323–100 BCE\u003cbr\u003eIV. The Millennium: Pagan Roman Empire, 100 BCE–99 CE\u003cbr\u003eV. Late Antiquity: Christian Roman Empire, 200–599 CE\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eBiographies of the Poets\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529526354263,"sku":"9781421408040","price":29.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421408040.jpg?v=1731875960","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cut-these-words-into-my-stone-9781421408040","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}