Love, Worship and Death

Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology

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A spring beside a grave, a sailor washed ashore and a small shrine above a fishing harbour bring ancient Greek lives into close view in Rennell Rodd's verse translations. Drawn from the Greek Anthology, these short poems move among affection, friendship, worship and grief. Voices include Sappho, Anyte of Tegea, Nossis and Meleager. The selection places named poets alongside anonymous voices from the ancient world.

Rodd's introduction explains his wish to make each English version work as a poem in its own right. The collection follows an approximately chronological order, allowing readers to compare the restraint of earlier lyrics with the more elaborate expression of later writers. The poems themselves offer smaller points of contact: evening gathering children home, cool water beneath trees, the hopes of fishing communities and remembrance of people lost at sea. Their brief forms suit readers interested in how everyday feeling survives through translation.

Classical Poetry

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Rennell Rodd

Rennell Rodd pursued parallel careers as a British diplomat, poet, and classical scholar, with official appointments in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Before his senior diplomatic service, he published Songs In The South, an early collection of poems issued in London in 1881.

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Author: Rennell Rodd
Reading time: About 20 minutes
Pages: 32
Language: English
Genre: Classical Poetry
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online