Classical Love Poetry

by Anacreon, Homer, Sappho

This Audiofy audiobook chip puts a two hour reading of "Classical Love Poetry" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, saving the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter-like those for digital cameras-this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows & Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 & above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS & Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo & Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 & above). This collection is divided between Greek & Latin authors. It contains selections from Homer, Sappho, Anacreon, Eurpides, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Anacreontea, Palatine Anthology, Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, Martial, Juvenal & Petronius.

Genres: Poetry, Audiobook

Cards

First published February 1, 1998

About the author

563? BC - 478? BC.
Songs of noted Greek poet Anacreon praised love and wine.

This able lyricist drank with hymns. People later included him in the canonical list of nine lyric. Anacreon wrote in the ancient Ionic dialect. People composed all early lyrics to recite to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. It touched on universal themes of infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals, and the observations of everyday people and life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreon

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an audiobook and I listened to it at work. Unfortunately, the audiobook plays classical music randomly during parts and I was slowly falling asleep at my night shift. Good poetry selection though and the readers are pretty good.