C.M. Bowra

Early Greek Elegists

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1960. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover. 208 pp. with index. A fine, tight example in dust jacket with some foxing and toning about the spine strip; classics professor's bookplate front pastedown and blindstamp on the title page. A reissue of Sir Maurice Bowra's six lectures given at Oberlin College in 1938. They give brief sketches of the works and personalities of the early Greek elegists (from the origins of elegy through Tyrtaeus, Solon, Xenophanes, Theognis to Simonides). Fine / very good. Item #E19644B

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