Greek Lyric: Bacchylides, Corinna, and others

David A. Campbell

Harvard University Press, 1982 - English literature

Bacchylides, nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar, wrote choral poetry of many types. We have a number of his victory odes -- poems celebrating victories in athletic contests -- as well as dithyrambs and otehr hymns. He was a master of the captivating narrative. Also represented in this volume is the Boeotian Corinna, whose work, versions of local myths, survives in greater quantity than that of any other Greek Poetess except Sappho. Ancient authorities regard Corinna as an older contemporary and mentor of Pindar; but some modern scholars place her later in the third century BC. Other women are here too: Myrtis, also from Boeotia; Telesilla of Argos, famous for her military leadership as well as her hymns; the shadowy Charixena; and Praxilla of Sicyoon, author of choral poems and drinking songs. David Campbell gives all the extant verse of these poets, along with the anceints accounts of their lives and works. This fourth volume of his much-praised edition of Greek lyric poetry also includes Timocreon of Rhodes, pentathlete and wirter of invective; Diagoras of Melos, choral poet and alleged atheist; and Ion of Chios. Sophocles is represented by fragments of his paean Ascelpius, Euripides by the few surviving lines of his ode for Alcibiades' dazzling victory in the chariot race at Olympia.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 14

Bibliographic information

• Title: Greek Lyric: Bacchylides, Corinna, and others; Volume 4 of Greek Lyric, David A. Campbell; Loeb classical library
• Editor: David A. Campbell
• Translated by: David A. Campbell
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1982
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Feb 22, 2008
• ISBN: 0674991575, 9780674991576