{"product_id":"puerilities-erotic-epigrams-of-the-greek-anthology-the-lockert-library-of-poetry-in-translation-9780691088204","title":"Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)","description":"\u003cp\u003eElegiac 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 beauty 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 poems about girls and women.  Fashion changes in morality as well as in poetry. The sort of attachment that inspired these verses was considered perfectly normal and respectable for over a thousand years. Some of the very best Greek poets--including Strato of Sardis  Theocritus  and Meleager of Gadara--are to be found in these pages. The more than two hundred fifty poems range from the lovely to the playful to the ribald  but all are  as an epigram should be  polished and elegant. The Greek originals face the translations  enhancing the volumes charm.  A friend of Youth  I have no youth in mind  For each has beauties  of a different kind. --Strat?  Ive had enough to drink; my heart and soul As well as tongue are losing self-control. The lamp flame bifurcates; I multiply The dinner guests by two each time I try. Not only shaken up by the wine-waiter  I ogle too the boy who pours the water. --Strat?  Venus  denying Cupid is her son  Finds in Antiochus a better one. This is the boy to be enamored of  Boys  a new love superior to Love. --Meleager\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647198814261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691088209","price":57.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691088204.jpg?v=1781689728","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/puerilities-erotic-epigrams-of-the-greek-anthology-the-lockert-library-of-poetry-in-translation-9780691088204","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}