A new translation of poetic masterpieces spanning Greece's Archaic and Golden Age to Byzantium by one of the foremost translators of the 20th century. In these beautiful renderings Edmund Keeley displays his sensitivity as a translator and his imagination as a poet. The verses spring to life for a new generation of readers who will delight in the inventiveness, wit, and honesty of essential ancient Greek voices such as Plato, Leonidas, Callimachus, Meleager, Honestus, Strato, and Palladas.