Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry - A Commentary

An authoritative commentary on the surviving fragments of Greek lyric poetry up to the death of Aristotle. Usually small, textually corrupt and difficult to interpret, the fragments cast light on several aspects of Greek culture

List of contents

• Abbreviations and General Bibliography


• List of Poets and Poems


• Commentaries


• I: Lesser Greek Lyric Fragments Assigned to Known Authors


• II: 'Popular' Poetry, Largely Fragmentary, in Lyric Metres


• III: Scolia: Drinking Songs Performed at Symposia


• IV: Anonymous Lyric Fragments, Including Those Preserved on Papyri, Lapidary Inscriptions and on Vases


• Index Nominum


• Index Verborum


• Index Rerum


• Index Locorum

About the author

Malcolm Davies is Professor of Greek and Latin Literature at St John's College, Oxford. His publications include Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Volume I (OUP, 1991) and Sophocles' 'Trachiniae' (OUP, 1991).

Summary

An authoritative commentary on the surviving fragments of Greek lyric poetry up to the death of Aristotle. Usually small, textually corrupt and difficult to interpret, the fragments cast light on several aspects of Greek culture

Additional text

This book represents a detailed philological commentary on a gallery of numerous poets who are already classified as 'lesser' in the title and who have not yet received any in-depth analysis...The present volume deserves the credit of having taken a notable step in this direction - of course only for the cognoscenti to whom the book is aimed.

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm (Professor of Greek and Latin Lite Davies
• Assisted by: Malcolm Davies (Editor), Davies Malcolm (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2021
• EAN: 9780198860501
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886050-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts