Greek lyric:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anacreon v580-v495 (Author), Bacchylides v516-v451 (Author), Corinna ca. v6./5. bzw. v3./2. Jh (Author), Ibycus ca. v6. Jh (Author), Sappho ca. v7./6. Jh (Author), Simonides Ceus ca. v556-v467 (Author), Stesichorus v640-v555 (Author)
Other Authors: Campbell, David A. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press
Series:Loeb Classical Library 142-144, 461, 476
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Item Description:Includes bibliographies and indexes
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

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