Thalia Delighting in Song: Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry

“There is no other book I know of that can teach the reader so much about what it means to read Greek lyric poems literately, sensitively, and passionately

as Thalia Delighting in Song. These essays are among the very best writings on Greek lyric poetry from the last decades of the twentieth century, and to read through them all is not only profoundly instructive, but also profoundly moving. Robbins’s close readings and deft interpretations of individual poetic texts in his scholarly essays work splendidly together with his general articles on a number of Greek lyric poets: taken together, they provide both a larger framework and a detailed specification of the themes that Robbins has so acutely and sensitively identified.

Thalia Delighting in Song is a wonderful book.” Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

“Thalia Delighting in Song is a major contribution to research. The writing is beautifully clear and easy to read, and the book has many delightful twists.” David A. Campbell, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria