The Loeb Classical Library: Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman

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The Loeb Classical Library: Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to AlcmanPrecious snippets of ancient song. 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

Liba Taub describes ancient scientific ideas and practices

Αυτοσχέδια παιχνίδια

He sketches the historical context in which the poems were written

2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe

These texts have long stood in the Loeb Classical Library with a faithful and literate prose translation by A

and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer

This fourth volume of a new Loeb edition of all twenty-one of Plautus’ extant comedies presents The Little Carthaginian

the former embittered by years of lonely exile

attacking the Macedonian king Philip II as an aggressive imperialist bent on destroying the city's independence

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2

a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames

θέλοντας να κρατήσει κρυφή την ταυτότητά της