Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry A Commentary
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Malcolm Davies, "Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary"
English | ISBN: 0198860501 | 2021 | 400 pages | PDF | 15 MB
An authoritative commentary on the surviving fragments of Greek lyric poetry up to the death of Aristotle. No comparable work exists, partly because these fragments are usually small, textually corrupt and difficult to interpret. But they cast light on several aspects of Greek culture: for example, religion and prayer formulae (many of them take the form of hymns), the symposium (they include a collection of scolia), and the development of the so-called 'New School' of poetry and music. They also include fragments of poems by Telesilla and Praxilla, two of the rare band of female poets of antiquity other than Sappho, and Philoxenus'
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