A review by intonewrealms
Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West

3.0

I find it crazy to hear from Ancients and realise how much more similar they were to us than some more recent civilisations, but then you’re hit with something quite horrible and you remember that we aren’t the same. This book is a collection of Ancient Greek poetry post Homer. It’s a bit odd because sometimes you get a really long one and then sometimes it’s just a fragment of three words. It’s kind of difficult to connect with them because there are so many and you just go from topic to topic with what feels like just parts of a sentence. But I think it’s going to be interesting to study further in depth this semester and there were definitely parts I identified with, or laughed in shock at.