Guy Davenport

Guy Mattison Davenport (1927 - 2005) was an American writer, translator, painter, illustrator, intellectual, and teacher.

Translations (one version)

• Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochus (University of California Press, 1964)
• Sappho: Songs & Fragments (University of Michigan Press, 1965)
• Herakleitos and Diogenes (Grey Fox Press, 1979)
• The Mimes of Herondas (Grey Fox Press, 1981)
• Maxims of the Ancient Egyptians (The Pace Trust, 1983) (from Boris de Rachewiltz's Massime degli antichi egiziani, 1954)
• Anakreon
• Archilochus, Sappho and Alkman (University of California Press, 1980) (adds Alkman to Carmina Archilochi & Sappho: Poems & Fragments)
• Archilochus Sappho Alkman: Three Greek Poets (University of California Press, 1984) (adds Alkman to Carmina Archilochi & Sappho: Poems & Fragments)
• The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus (Counterpoint, 1996) (w/ Benjamin Urrutia)
• 7 Greeks (New Directions, 1995) (collects Carmina Archilochi, Sappho: Songs & Fragments, Herakleitos and Diogenes, The Mimes of Herondas, Anakreon, & Archilochus Sappho Alkman)