Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia.

这本并不厚重的小书，却有着很重的分量。柏拉图的对话录《斐多》，描绘的是哲人苏格拉底就义的当日，与其门徒就正义和不朽的讨论，以及饮鸩至死的过程。苏格拉底本可以逃往其他城邦、或者保持缄默，但他不肯背叛他的信念，就义前从容不惧，他与他的门生侃侃而谈的情景，令人崇敬。在西方文化中，论影响的深远，几乎没有另一本著作可以与《斐多》相比。杨绛先生的译文，对照多种版本和注释，并一句句死盯着英译本，而力求通达流畅。她认为：“苏格拉底和朋友们的谈论，该是随常的谈话而不是哲学论文或哲学座谈会上的讲稿，所以我尽量避免哲学术语，努力把这篇盛称语言生动如戏剧的对话译成戏剧似的对话。”名作由名家翻译，所以，这本书的分量非同一般。

Organized chronologically, this text presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history and features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period.

◆一套《罗念生全集》，一座奥林匹斯山。 ◆最全面完整：《罗念生全集》增订典藏纪念版，凡十卷，凡5200页，全新整理修订。 ◆最权威可信：多位资深学者耗时十余载，精心编订，搜求齐备，校勘精当，体例严明，反映出一代翻译大师的贡献原貌。 ◆最经典耐读： 罗念生先生译文典雅质朴 ，注文详尽，选目精当，凡古希腊文、拉丁文、英文、德文译出者均为世界文学经典，极具文学研究价值。 ———————————————————————————————————— 本卷收集了罗念生先生翻译的埃斯库罗斯悲剧六种：《波斯人》《七将攻忒拜》《普罗米修斯》《阿伽门农》《奠酒人》《报仇神》. ———————————————————————————————————— 【评论】 中国和希腊，在历史上是两个并驾齐驱的国家，它们都曾经是人类思想和文化的中心── 一个在东，一个在西。自古以来，思想的旅行是从来不知道边界和距离的。这是一个令人神往的课题。在这个课题上，世界上很少有人像罗念生教授那样博识广闻，……在这一令人神往的课题上，世界上很少有人能像（罗）教授那样恪尽职责，卓然有成。 ——1987年，雅典科学院授予罗念生先生“最高文学艺术奖”，希腊驻华大使致辞 尊敬的念生老师，请接受我对您的工作表示的钦佩。这项工作的范围是巨大而广阔的，它的价值将会像人们崇敬精神世界的创造一样长久地存在下去，并且我相信，任何时候人们都不会失去对精神和道德的价值的尊重…… ──1990年1月15日，塞浦路斯总统，乔治•瓦西里欧 无论从开创局面，翻译年数之多，数量之大，用力之专与勤来看，中国当首推罗念生。 ──《中国大百科全书》 他是一位资深的古希腊文字与文学专家。自清华读书时起，致力于这门学术的研究已有六十余年。在今日中国，不论大陆与台湾，找不到一位像他这样献身于希腊文学的研究者。 ──（美）柳无忌

◆一套《罗念生全集》，一座奥林匹斯山。 ◆最全面完整：《罗念生全集》增订典藏纪念版，凡十卷，凡5200页，全新整理修订。 ◆最权威可信：多位资深学者耗时十余载，精心编订，搜求齐备，校勘精当，体例严明，反映出一代翻译大师的贡献原貌。 ◆最经典耐读： 罗念生先生译文典雅质朴 ，注文详尽，选目精当，凡古希腊文、拉丁文、英文、德文译出者均为世界文学经典，极具文学研究价值。 ———————————————————————————————————— 本卷收集了罗念生先生翻译的欧里庇德斯悲剧五种，包括：《阿尔刻提斯》《美狄亚》《特洛亚妇女》《伊菲革涅亚在陶洛人里》《酒神的伴侣》。. ———————————————————————————————————— 【评论】 中国和希腊，在历史上是两个并驾齐驱的国家，它们都曾经是人类思想和文化的中心── 一个在东，一个在西。自古以来，思想的旅行是从来不知道边界和距离的。这是一个令人神往的课题。在这个课题上，世界上很少有人像罗念生教授那样博识广闻，……在这一令人神往的课题上，世界上很少有人能像（罗）教授那样恪尽职责，卓然有成。 ——1987年，雅典科学院授予罗念生先生“最高文学艺术奖”，希腊驻华大使致辞 尊敬的念生老师，请接受我对您的工作表示的钦佩。这项工作的范围是巨大而广阔的，它的价值将会像人们崇敬精神世界的创造一样长久地存在下去，并且我相信，任何时候人们都不会失去对精神和道德的价值的尊重…… ──1990年1月15日，塞浦路斯总统，乔治•瓦西里欧 无论从开创局面，翻译年数之多，数量之大，用力之专与勤来看，中国当首推罗念生。 ──《中国大百科全书》 他是一位资深的古希腊文字与文学专家。自清华读书时起，致力于这门学术的研究已有六十余年。在今日中国，不论大陆与台湾，找不到一位像他这样献身于希腊文学的研究者。 ──（美）柳无忌

◆一套《罗念生全集》，一座奥林匹斯山。 ◆最全面完整：《罗念生全集》增订典藏纪念版，凡十卷，凡5200页，全新整理修订。 ◆最权威可信：多位资深学者耗时十余载，精心编订，搜求齐备，校勘精当，体例严明，反映出一代翻译大师的贡献原貌。 ◆最经典耐读： 罗念生先生译文典雅质朴，注文详 尽，选目精当，凡古希腊文、拉丁文、英文、德文译出者均为世界文学经典，极具文学研究价值。 ——————————————————————————————————— 本卷收集了罗念生先生翻译的索福克勒斯悲剧五种：《安提戈涅》《俄狄浦斯王》《厄勒克拉特》《特剌喀斯少女》《俄狄浦斯在科罗诺斯》。

An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies into a terrified alliance. When Achilles, the pride and mainstay of the Greeks, and Penthesilea (Pen-te-sil-lay-uh), queen of the Amazons, meet, a chase begins, and it is the queen who is hunting Achilles, to the uncomprehending horror of the Greeks. Thus begins a tragedy of love in a world governed by the rules of war, on which "the gods look down but from afar." For the first time, in this splendidly illustrated book, an English translation recreates the audaity, romance, and poetry of one of the strangest and most beautiful works of Western literature.

In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — A iskhylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Orestes. After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother’s revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra’s actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father’s death with the help of his sister Elektra. In the end, Orestes is driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family. Condemned to death by the people of Argos, he and Elektra must justify their actions — or flout society, justice and the gods. Carson’s translation combines contemporary language with the traditional structures and rhetoric of Greek tragedy, opening up this ancient tale of vengeance to a modern audience and revealing the essential wit and morbidity of the original plays.

Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC). A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with: "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?", Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view and styles, transcending the constraints of the scholarly exercise for an evocative and lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos William's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue.

Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age. Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the bathroom, argue with their spouse and enjoy a drink with friends. Few of the city's other inhabitants enjoy the benefits of such a civilized society, though - as multicultural and progressive as Athens can be, many are barred from citizenship. No, for the average person, life is about making ends meet, whether that be selling fish, guarding the temple or smuggling lucrative Greek figs. During the course of a day we meet 24 Athenians from all strata of society - from the slave-girl to the councilman, the vase painter to the naval commander, the housewife to the hoplite - and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters every chapter, with each chapter forming an hour in the life of the ancient city. We also get to spy on the daily doings of notable Athenians through the eyes of regular people as the city hovers on the brink of the fateful war that will destroy its golden age.