By Sappho, Diogenes of Sinope, Archilochos, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Herondas
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Here is a colourful kind pf works through seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, every thing decipherable from the continues to be of those old authors is assembled the following. From early to later, the gathering comprises: Archilochos; Sappho; Alkman; Anakreon; the philosophers Herakleitos and Diogenes; and Herondas. This composite of fragments translated by way of man Davenport is the main entire selection of its style ever to seem in a single quantity.
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