Elegy and iambus
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Elegy and iambus

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Volume I. Part I. Fragments of Greek elegiac poetry from the seventh century to the end of the fifth B.C. Seventh century: Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Asius, Mimnermus; seventh-sixth century: Solon; sixth century: Cleobulus, Cleobulina, Demodocus, Phocylides, Xenophanes, Theognis (his poetry includes nearly 1400 lines), Hipparchus; fifth century: Pigres, Epicharmus, Phrynichus, the great tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; Ion of Chios, Ion of Samos, Philiades, Melanthius, Empedocles, Archelaüs, Hippon, Dionysius Chalcus, Alcibiades, Socrates, Critias, Agathon, Euenus, and Antimachus. Volume II. Part I continued. Elegaic poetry of the fourth century: Plato Simmias, Praxiteles, Parrahasius, Zeuxis, Thucydides?, Apollodorus, Dionysius II of Syracuse, Mamercus, Astydamas, Philiscus, Aphareus, Speusippus, Aristotle, Crates (elegiacs, epic, iambi, tragedies), Castorion, Cleon, Theocritus of Chios, Menander, Panarches. Plato. Simmias of Thebes. Praxiteles. Parrhasius. Zeuxis. Thucydides. Apollodorus. Dionysius the Younger. Mamercus. Astydamas. Philiscus. Aphareus. Speusippis. Aristotle. Crates. Castorion. Cleon. Theocritus of Chios. Menander. Panarces. Volume II. Part II. Iambic Poetry. Archilochus (sixth century B.C.), famous composer of elegies, hymns, etc. -- more than 200 fragments, some substantial. (We include the remarkable 'Archilochus Monument' and the work done on the text by Edmonds). Semonides of Amorgos -- more than 40 fragments (one is a poem of 118 lines); Hermippus, Scythinus. Volume II. Part III. Anonymous poetry (epigraphic) in hexameters, elegiacs, iambics, trochaics. The poems ('Anacretontea') connected with Anacreon of the sixth century B.C. (Lyra Graeca, Vol II, Loeb 143) but belonging to later times. These are at least 60 in number, simple and charming.

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