Keeley, Edmund: Nakedness Is My End

A selection of poetic masterpieces spanning Greece's Archaic and Golden Age to Byzantium translated by the late Edmund Keeley—whom the New York Times Book Review called "the definitive translator of 20th-century Greek poetry into English." In these late-career translations, Keeley sheds a new light on the inventiveness, wit, and honesty of essential ancient Greek voices such as Plato, Leonidas, Callimachus, Meleager, Honestus, Strato, and Palladas.

"The Ancients did not mince words when it came to love and death. Edmund Keeley's stunning translation brings Ancient Greek pith and urgency into the twenty-first century: playful and oracular, Nakedness Is My End is an essential study of human life in lyric form." —KAREN EMMERICH

"In Keeley's lucid translations, we find just what we need: grace, humor, beauty, good advice, and succor; all that poetry has been bringing us through the darkness for these thousands of years. This expertly selected collection will remind you to 'treat yourself entirely to what good things there are.'" —ELENI SIKELIANOS

“A new English translation of ancient masterworks, Nakedness is My End contains poetry from Plato, Strato, Palladas, and others in a way that is accessible and meaningful for the modern reader.” —PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY