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Lyric Poetry

  • α

(1) D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry (Macmillan, repr. Bristol Classical Press): Alcman 1, 16, 26, Sappho 1, 2, 16, 31, 44, 94, 96, 105a, 105c, Alcaeus 6, 38A, 129, 130, 308b, 326, 332, 338, 346, Ibycus 286, 287, Anacreon 356, 358, 360, 395, 408, 417, Simonides 531, 542, 543, 581, Bacchylides 3, 5, 18, fr. 20B; M. Davies, Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (Oxford), Stesichorus 184, S8-S19 (pp. 154-62) (Geryoneis); G. O. Hutchinson, Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford), nos. 2 (= Alcman PMGF 3), 3 (= Stesichorus PMGF 222 (b)), 10 (= Alcaeus fr. 298 Voigt), 11 (= Ibycus PMGF S151); (2) Pindar, Olympians 6, 7, Pythians 3, 4, 8, Nemean 10, Paean 4 (= D4 Rutherford), Partheneion 2; (3) Timotheus 788-91 Hordern (= Page); (4) Callimachus fr. 228 Pfeiffer; (5) J. U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina (Oxford), pp. 177-9 (Grenfell Fragment); (6) Catullus 11, 17, 34, 61; (7) Horace, Odes I, IV, Carmen Saeculare.

  • β

(8) D. A. Campbell (as above), rest of Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon (excluding 96 D.), lyric Simonides, Bacchylides; Pratinas, Timocreon, Corinna, Praxilla, Carmina Popularia, and Scolia; M. Davies (as above), Stesichorus 193 (p. 179), 209 (pp. 206-7), 217 (pp. 209-10) and S20-87 (pp. 163-75); (9) Pindar, Olympians 13, 14, Pythian 10, Nemean 1, Isthmians 5 and 6, Paeans 2 and 6 (= D2 and D6 Rutherford); (10) Theocritus 29-30; (11) Horace, Odes II and III.

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