Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection of Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac and Iambic Poetry

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Greek Lyric Poetry: A Selection of Early Greek Lyric, Elegiac and Iambic PoetryThis edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. First published in 1967 in the 'red Macmillan' series, it was reprinted by BCP in 1982 with addenda to the bibliography and an appendix reproducing a text of three substantial 'new' papyrus fragments by Archilochus, Stesichorus and Alcaeus. The extensive commentary gives assistance with matters

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literature and criticism of the Grecian drama with a treatise on principal tragic and comic metres

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consisting chiefly of consummate examples of personal or choral lyric created by Sappho in the seventh or sixth century BC

Λαόνικος Χαλκοκονδύλης

an eleventh-century Benedictine choirmaster

and has provided full and discursive notes on points both grammatical and substantial

and academic discipline

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