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LCL · Greek

Select Papyri, Volume III: Poetry

Documents recovered from the sands of Egypt -- private letters, contracts, petitions, and literary scraps -- giving the daily texture of Greek life under Roman rule.

The Edition

Original language
Greek
Translated by
Denys L. Page

Publication

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Series
Loeb Classical Library (LCL)
Series volume
360
Date published
1941-01-01
Print status
In print

The Physical Book

Binding
Hardcover
Dust jacket
Yes
Total pages
640 pages
ISBN-13
9780674993976

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Aids to the Reader
  • Tragedy, 5th And 4th Centuries b.c
    • 1. Aeschylus, Niobe
    • 2. Aeschylus, Dictyulci
    • 3. Sophocles, Gathering of the Achaeans
    • 4. Sophocles, Eurypylus
    • 5. Sophocles, Scyrians
    • 6. Sophocles, Inachus
    • 7. Sophocles, The Searchers
    • 8. Euripides, Alcmeon through Corinth
    • 9. Euripides, Alexander
    • 10. Euripides, Antiope
    • 11. Euripides, Cretans
    • 12. Euripides, Hypsipyle
    • 13. Euripides, Melanippe Captive
    • 14. Euripides, Melanippe the Wise
    • 15. Euripides, Pirithous
    • 16. Euripides, Stheneboea
    • 17. Euripides, Telephus
    • 18. Euripides, Fragments
    • 19. Ion, Omphale
    • 20. Anonymous:? Aeschylus, Myrmidons
    • 21. Anonymous:? Sophocles, Gathering of the Achaeans
    • 22. Anonymous:? Sophocles, Niobe
    • 23. Anonymous:? Sophocles, Tantalus
    • 24. Anonymous:? Sophocles, Tereus
    • 25. Anonymous:? Sophocles, Tyro
    • 26. Anonymous:? Euripides, Alexander
    • 27. Anonymous:? Euripides, Meleager
    • 28. Anonymous:? Euripides, Oeneus
    • 29. Anonymous:? Hector
    • 30. Anonymous:? Hecuba
    • 31. Anonymous:? Oeneus, or Schoeneus, or Phoenix
    • 32. Anonymous:? Phrixus
    • 33. Anonymous:? Seven against Thebes
    • 34. Anonymous: Speech of a Heroine
    • 35. Anonymous: Fragment
    • 36. Anonymous: Maxim
  • Old Comedy, 5th Century b.c
    • 37. Epicharmus, probably Odysseus the Deserter
    • 38. Cratinus, The Plutuses
    • 39. Pherecrates, Fragment
    • 40. Eupolis, The Demes
    • 41. Anonymous:? Eupolis, Prospaltians
    • 42. Aristophanes, Fragments
    • 43. Plato, Fragment
    • 44. Anonymous: Women Conversing
    • 45. Anonymous: Fragments
    • 46. Anonymous: Fragment
  • Middle Comedy And New Comedy, 4th And 3rd Centuries B.C
    • 47. Anonymous:? Philiscus, Birth of Zeus
    • 48. Anonymous:? Alexis
    • 49. Anonymous: A Feast
    • 50. Philemon, Sculptor, and a Fragment
    • 51. imocles, Heroes, and Icarians
    • 52. Menander, Unpopular
    • 53. Menander,? The Changeling
    • 54. Menander, Smicrines, Chaereas
    • 55.? Menander,? Theophoroumene
    • 56. Menander, Maxims
    • 57. Straton, Phoenicides
    • 58. Apollodorus, Fragment
    • 59. Anonymous: Cooks
    • 60. Anonymous: Prologue
    • 61. Anonymous: Moschion, Laches
    • 62. Anonymous: Youth, Daos, Simon
    • 63. Anonymous: Youth, Demeas, Slave
    • 64. Anonymous: Strobilus
    • 65. Anonymous: Phaedimus, Niceratus
    • 66. Anonymous: Father, Mother, Daughter
    • 67. Anonymous: Slave, Master
    • 68. Anonymous: Youth, Slave
    • 69. Anonymous: Sympathetic Slave
    • 70. Anonymous: Numenius, Slave
    • 71. Anonymous: Fragments
    • 72. Anonymous: Two Prologues
  • Mime
    • 73. Sophron, Fragment of a Mime (v. b.c.)
    • 74. Anonymous: “Drunkard” (? ii.–i. b.c.)
    • 75. Anonymous: Lament for a Cock (? i. a.d.)
    • 76. Anonymous: Charition (? ii. a.d.)
    • 77. Anonymous: Adulteress (? ii. a.d.)
    • 78. Anonymous: A Quarrel (? ii. a.d.)
    • 79. Anonymous: Damsel in Distress (? iii. a.d.)
  • Lyric Poems
    • 80. Anonymous, probably Archilochus (early vii. b.c.)
    • 81. Sappho, Book I (early vi. b.c.)
    • 82. Corinna, Orestes (late vi. b.c.)
    • 83. Pindar, Fragments of Two Poems (vi.–v. b.c.)
    • 84. Anonymous: perhaps Bacchylides (or possibly Simonides) (early v. b.c.?)
    • 85. Anonymous: Divers Fragments of Early Lyric Poetry (uncertain and various dates, vi.–iv. b.c.)
    • 86. Anonymous: Scolia, perhaps Attic (v.–iv. b.c.)
    • 87. Anonymous: Fragments of Dithyrambic Poetry (v.–iv. b.c.)
    • 88. Anonymous: Fragments of Dithyrambic Poetry (? iv. b.c.)
    • 89. Anonymous:? Dithyrambic Poem (? iv. b.c.)
    • 90. Philicus, Hymn to Demeter (iii. b.c.)
    • 91. Anonymous: Hymn to Demeter (iii. b.c.)
    • 92. Anonymous: Four Hellenistic Fragments (? iii.–ii. b.c.)
    • 93. Anonymous: Late Hellenistic Anapaests (? ii.–i. b.c.)
    • 94. Anonymous: A Visit to the Underworld (? ii.–iii. a.d.)
    • 95. Anonymous: Metamorphoses (? ii.–iii. a.d.)
    • 96. Anonymous: Record of a Cure by Sarapis (? iii. a.d.)
    • 97. Anonymous: Sailors Song (? ii.–iii. a.d.)
    • 98. Anonymous: Sailors Song (? iii. a.d.)
    • 99. Anonymous: Hymn to Fortune (? iii. a.d.)
    • 100. Anonymous: A Schoolboy’s Recitation (iv. a.d.)
  • Elegiac And Iambic Poems
    • 101. Mimnermus, Smyrneis (late vii. b.c.)
    • 102. Epicharmea, probably by Axiopistus (about 300 b.c.)
    • 103. Anonymous: Epigram for a Merry Company (iii. b.c.)
    • 104. Poseidippus, Two Epigrams (iii. b.c.)
    • 105. Anonymous: Two Epigrams (iii. b.c.)
    • 106. Anonymous: Epigram on the Death of Philicus (iii. b.c.)
    • 107. Amyntas, Leonidas, Antipater of Sidon (iii.–ii. b.c.)
    • 108. Anonymous: Epigram (iii. b.c.)
    • 109. Anonymous: Two Epigrams (iii. b.c.)
    • 110. Anonymous: Elegy about a War (iii. b.c.)
    • 111. Anonymous: Poem in Praise of an Officer (iii. b.c.)
    • 112. Anonymous: Preface to an Astronomical Treatise (ii. b.c.)
    • 113. Anonymous: Epigram (late i. b.c.)
    • 114. Poseidippus: Elegy on Old Age (? i. a.d.)
    • 115. Anonymous: Moral Fable (? ii. a.d.)
    • 116. Anonymous: Moral Maxims (uncertain date)
    • 117. Anonymous: Epitaphs for Euprepius, by his Daughter (? iii. a.d.)
  • Hexameter Poems
    • 118. Panyasis, Heracles (early v. b.c.)
    • 119. Anonymous: Fragment (? iv. b.c.)
    • 120. Erinna, The Distaff (iv. b.c.)
    • 121. Euphorion, Three Fragments (iii. b.c.)
    • 122. Anonymous: Old Woman’s Lament (? iii.–ii. b.c.)
    • 123. Anonymous: Bucolic (? iii.–ii. b.c.)
    • 124. Anonymous: Georgic (? iii.–ii. b.c.)
    • 125. Anonymous: Drinking-Song (? i. a.d.)
    • 126. Anonymous: Hero and Leander (? i. a.d.)
    • 127. Anonymous: Sayings of the Seven Wise Men (uncertain date)
    • 128. Pancrates, Antinous (ii. a.d.)
    • 129. Anonymous: Dionysus and Lycurgus (iii. a.d.)
    • 130. Anonymous: Praise of Theon (? iii. a.d.)
    • 131. Anonymous: Treatise on Metres (iii. a.d.)
    • 132. Anonymous: Praise of Maximus (iii. a.d.)
    • 133. Anonymous:? Astyoche (? iii. a.d.)
    • 134. Dionysius, Bassarica (iii.–iv. a.d.)
    • 135. Anonymous: Persian War of Diocletian and Galerius (early iv. a.d.)
    • 136. Anonymous: Creation of the Universe (early iv. a.d.)
    • 137. Anonymous: Odyssey (iii.–iv. a.d.)
    • 138. Anonymous: Epicedeion for a Professor of the University of Berytus (iv. a.d.)
    • 139. Anonymous: Epithalamion (? iv. a.d.)
    • 140. Anonymous, perhaps Pamprepius of Panopolis, Two Poems (about 500 a.d.)
    • 141. Anonymous: Praise of a Roman General (early v. a.d.)
    • 142. Anonymous: Praise of Germanus (early v. a.d.)
    • 143. Anonymous: Appeal to a Roman General (v. a.d.)
    • 144. Anonymous: Victory of a Roman General (v. a.d.)
    • 145. Anonymous: Fragment (? v. a.d.)
    • 146. Anonymous: Incantation to Cure Headache (? v. a.d.)
    • 147. Anonymous: Address to the Nile (v.–vi. a.d.)
  • Index of Proper Names
  • Index of Editiones Principes