Why doest thou pour, O wretch profane,
On senseless earth, the nectared wine?To me thy breathing odours bring,
On me the mantling bowls bestow:
Go, Chloe, rob the roseate spring
For wreaths to grace my honoured brow.Yes, ere the airy dance I join
Of flitting shadows, light and vain,
I’ll wisely drown, in floods of wine,
Each busy care, and idle pain.
(Anacreontea32 in The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation)Further reading
Kenney, E. J. and Easterling, P E. (eds), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, I, Greek
Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
De Romilly, Jacqueline, A Short history of Greek Literature,University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Snyder, Jane McIntosh, The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome,
Bristol Classical Press, 1989.
Vickers, Brian, Towards Greek Tragedy, Longman,1973.
Lesky, Albin, Greek Tragedy (translated by H. A. Frankfort), Benn, 1978.
Knox, B. M. W., The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, University of California
Press, Berkeley, 1966.
Mason, H. A., The Tragic Plane, Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sandbach, F H., The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome, Chatto and Windus, 1977.
McLeish, Kenneth, The Theatre of Aristophanes, Thames and Hudson, 1972.
Fantuzzi, Marco and Hunter, Richard, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry, Cambridge
University Press, 2004
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