Condition / Etat: very good, dust jacket with minor shelf wear / très bon état, minimes traces d'usures.
Volumes : 5 volumes.
Binding / Reliure : original green titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
Pages : about 2500 pp.
Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
Date : 1988 - 1993.
Language / Langue: Ancient Grec and English on opposite pages / Bilingue grec et anglais.
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.
Volume I presents Sappho and Alcaeus.
Volume II contains the work of Anacreon, composer of solo song; the Anacreontea; and the and 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.
mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.
The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.
