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Meleager's Epitaph. A Greek Translation by Michael Wolfe

My father was Eucrates.
Meleager is my name.
Born in Gadara, Palestine
I came of age in Tyre...

Click on the Blog page above for a full translation of this epitaph, from The Last Word: Selected Greek Epitaphs, by Michael Wolfe, to be published in Fall, 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press.




Woman with stylus and wax tablet, thinking. Pompeii.

Some Books by Michael Wolfe

Translation, Poetry
A selection of 120 Greek epitaphs translated into English and introduced by Michael Wolfe, with a Foreword by Richard P. Martin. To be published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring, 2012. For general readers and classrooms. "A beautiful job." Richard Wilbur.
Travel Writing Anthology
“A tradition of Muslim writing aimed at the insiders and out.” The Boston Globe
Nonfiction Travel Narrative
“It requires a special sensitivity to write well about the Hadj…Michael Wolfe’s tone is exactly right.” The Times Literary Supplement

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