| Other author/creator | Alcaeus, author. |
| Other author/creator | Anacreon, author. |
| Other author/creator | Bacchylides author. |
| Other author/creator | Corinna, of Tanagra, active 5th century B.C., author. |
| Other author/creator | Ibycus, active 6th century B.C., author. |
| Other author/creator | Sappho author. |
| Other author/creator | Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C., author. |
| Other author/creator | Stesichorus, author. |
| Other author/creator | Campbell, David A., editor, translator. |
| Series | Loeb Classical Library ; 142-144, 461, 476
Loeb classical library ; 142-144, 461, 476. ^A467228 |
| Contents |
v. I. Sappho and Alcaeus -- v. II. Anacreon, Anacreontea, choral lyric from Olympus to Alcman -- v. III. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and others -- v. IV. Bacchylides, Corinna, and others -- v. V. The new school of poetry and anonymous songs and hymns. |
| Abstract |
The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged. The high quality of what remains makes us realize the enormity of our loss. Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love, and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, were two illustrious singers of sixth-century BCE Lesbos. Anacreon (c. 570-485 BCE) was a composer of solo song. The Anacreonta were composed over several centuries. Notable among the earliest writers of choral poetry are the seventh-century BCE Spartans Alcman and Terpander. The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. They included Stesichorus, Ibycus, and Simonides, as well as Arion, Lasus, and Pratinas. Bacchylides wrote masterful choral poetry of many types. Other fifth-century BCE lyricists included Myrtis, Telesilla of Argos, Timocreon of Rhodes, Charixena, Diagoras of Melos, Ion of Chios, Praxilla of Sicyon. More of Boeotian Corinna's (third-century BCE?) poetry survives than that of any other Greek woman poet except Sappho. Dithyrambic poets of the new school were active from the mid-fifth to mid-fourth century BCE. Anonymous poems include drinking songs, children's ditties, and cult hymns. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language | Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Greek lyric. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982 9780674991576(v.1) 9780674991583(v.2) 9780674995253(v.3) 9780674995086(v.4) 9780674995598(v.5) |
| ISBN | (v. 1) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 2) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 3) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 4) print version |
| ISBN | (v. 5) print version |
