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 realise the
enormity of our loss.
Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus. Volume II contains the
work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the "Anacreontea"; and the
earliest writers of choral poetry, notably the seventh-century
Spartans Alcman and Terpander. Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and
other sixth-century poets are in Volume III. Bacchylides and other
fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although
some argue that she belongs to the third century). Volume V
contains the new school of poets active from the mid-fifth to the
mid-fourth century and also collects folk songs, drinking songs,
hymns, and other anonymous pieces.
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