Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry: An Anthology of New Translations - Paperback

by Diane J. Rayor (Editor), William W. Batstone (Editor)

This second edition has been re-edited with both revised and new translations and an updated commentary and bibliography for readers in a new century, ensuring that this much-valued anthology remains useful and relevant a new generation of students studying ancient literature and western civilization.

Author Biography

Diane J. Rayor is Professor of Classics at Grand Valley State University, USA, in the department that she co-founded in 2000. She has published six book translations of ancient Greek poetry and drama: Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (2014), the first book to include recent Sappho discoveries; Euripides' "Medea" (2013); Sophocles' "Antigone" (2011); Homeric Hymns; Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece; and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo). Helen and Hecuba are joining the line-up after her stint as a Roe Green Visiting Theater Artist for 2018-19 at the University of Colorado, USA, for the production of Hecuba.

William W. Batstone is Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University, USA. He has published widely on the authors of the Republic and Triumviral period, including Plautus, Catullus, Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, and Vergil. He is the co-author of Caesar's Civil Wars (with Cynthia Damon), has translated (with introduction and commentary) Sallust's Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, and Histories, and edited or co-edited several volumes including Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature (with Garth Tissol). He is currently working on the Oxford Readings in Sallust (with Andrew Feldherr) and his article on Sulpicia, "Sulpicia and the Speech of Men," a complement to and extension of the notes here, has recently been published.