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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: bird called Elaeus
    sub title: poems for here and now from the Greek anthology
  name:
    name part: Constantine, David
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 111 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by around 300 authors. The Greek Anthology is a marvelous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, a colossal continuity and variety from pre-classical times through Roman into Byzantine. For A Bird Called Elaeus, his small anthology of the vast original, David Constantine has gone particularly not just to the renowned love poems but also to poems that treat man’s dealings with the earth, his work and trades there, the creatures other than himself who inhabit it and the divinities whose care it is. Through his translations, Constantine brings already urgent poems closer to home and our drift towards the Sixth Extinction. For the Ancient World was not populated by humans harmless to Mother Earth, not at all. Often they, like us, did the worst their means enabled them to do. Still there were laws. These things you must not do. Doing them nevertheless was understood as transgression of laws beyond the human laws. You offended Demeter at your peril. Understand that how we like, it’s the same now. And the peril is infinitely greater, threatens to be final, consuming the innocent with the guilty.
  note: translated & arranged by David Constantine.
  subject:
    topic: Greek poetry
    topic: translations into English
  classification: PA3623.A5 B57 2024
  classification: 881.0108
  identifier: 1780377223
  identifier: 9781780377223
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 231230
    record change date: 20250505161401.8
    record identifier: in00005644043