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The works of Anacreon and Sappho : with pieces from ancient authors; and occasional essays

Archive Print Item: Greek C-2/ANA

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Type of record: Book

Title: The works of Anacreon and Sappho : with pieces from ancient authors; and occasional essays

Other titles: Carmina

Level: Item

Classmark: Greek C-2/ANA

Creator(s): Anacreon

Additional creator(s): Sappho (Other); Greene, Edward Burnaby (1788) (Other)

Related people: Sappho; Greene, Edward Burnaby

Publisher: printed for J. Ridley

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1768

Language: English

Size and medium: xxxii,287,[1]p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/196247

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009469219705181

Description

Edited by Edward Burnaby Greene.


With errata.


Contents: The classic: a poem, addressed to ₋₋₋₋₋ ₋₋₋₋₋, esq. -- Observations on the life, and writings of Anacreon. -- The odes of Anacreon. -- Observations on the life, and writings of Sappho. -- Odei: an hymn to Venus. -- Epigrams of Anacreon, and fragments of Sappho, with an essay on Epigram prefixed. -- The Epitaph of Adonis from Bion; and the Epitaph of Bion from Moschus, with observations on their lives and writings; and an essay on pastoral poetry. -- Ecloga. -- Remarks on the First Ecologue of Virgil, with a version of that pastoral subjoined. -- Lyric versions from Horace with observations on his life, and writings.

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