À beleza incandescente e luminosa dos grandes autores desses séculos de ouro da cultura grega (do séc. VII a.C ao séc. III) - como Álcman, Semónides, Mimnermo, Safo, Íbico, Anacreonte, Teógonis, Píndaro, Baquílides e Teócrito - junta-se o prazer de descobrir as raízes da literatura ocidental. Cada um desses autores influenciou diretamente centenas de outros e é parte dos alicerces da nossa civilização. Depois da tradução da Ilíada, da Odisseia e dos primeiros quatro volumes da Bíblia, Frederico Lourenço mostra como a beleza pode ser traduzida sem ferir a sua originalidade. A edição é bilingue, em capa dura e com todos os cuidados gráficos de um grande acontecimento.
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also know as Pindare. People remember Greek lyric poet Pindar (522 BC-443 BC) especially for his odes, celebrating victorious athletes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar
Theocritus (Greek Θεόκριτος), the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems ("Idylls") commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity. It is clear that at a very early date two collections were made, one of which included a number of doubtful poems and formed a corpus of bucolic poetry, while the other was confined to those works which were considered to be by Theocritus himself. He was probably from Sicily, as he refers to Polyphemus, the cyclops in the Odyssey, as his 'countryman.' He also probably lived in Alexandria for a while, where he wrote about everyday life, notably Pharmkeutra. It is also speculated that Theocritus was born in Syracuse, lived on the island, Kos, and lived in Egypt during the time of Ptolemy II.
7th century BC Greek poet, citizen of Sparta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcman
6th century BC Greek poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibycus
Work of Greek lyric poet Sappho, noted for its passionate and erotic celebration of the beauty of young women and men, after flourit circa 600 BC and survives only in fragments. Ancient history poetry texts associate Sappho (Σαπφώ or Ψάπφω) sometimes with the city of Mytilene or suppose her birth in Eresos, another city, sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC. She died around 570 BC. People throughout antiquity well knew and greatly admired the bulk, now lost, but her immense reputation endured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho
