Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Amaranth and Asphodel: Songs From the Greek Anthology
The Anthology, from which the poems in this volume are borrowed, may fairly claim the double interest of possessing at once paramount artistic and antiquarian value. There is no book like it for the student of Greek art or language who wishes to understand the motives and conditions of Greek life. Yet it is little known or read even among scholars. In publishing these verses, I venture to hope that more of those who can read Greek will turn to the perusal of the original, and some of those who cannot may find pleasure in the copies. If the coins are out of reach, some interest may attach even to electrotypes.
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