A Garden of Greek Verse

$21.95 at The Getty Museum.

This volume features selections of odes, hymns, and lyrics from many of Greece's most noted classical poets—including Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Sophocles, and Euripides—beautifully illustrated with details of ancient Greek frescoes, vase paintings, and sculptures. Over the centuries, celebrated writers such as George Chapman, Mary Barnard, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and W. B. Yeats have been inspired to create contemporary translations of these enduring verses. In this volume are their and other modern poets'…