Select Papyri, Volume III: Poetry (Loeb Classical Library)
The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th4th centuries BCE fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play by Aeschylus); of five by Sophocles; of ten by Euripides; of one by Ion; and of some plays not assignable. From Old Comedy, 5th century, we have fragments of one play each of Epicharmus, Cratinus, Pherecrates, Eupolis, and Plato; some fragments of Aristophanes; and unassignable fragments. From Middle...
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The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th–4th centuries BCE fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play by Aeschylus); of five by Sophocles; of ten by Euripides; of one by Ion; and of some plays not assignable. From Old Comedy, 5th century, we have fragments of one play each of Epicharmus, Cratinus, Pherecrates, Eupolis, and Plato; some fragments of Aristophanes; and unassignable fragments. From Middle Comedy and New Comedy, 4th and 3rd centuries, are twenty-six items including at least three by Menander and one each by Philemon, Timocles, and Straton. From mimes there are a fragment of Sophron and six unassignable, including 112 lines of clownish doings by the Indian Ocean. The lyric poetry, 7th century BCE–4th CE, twenty-one mostly anonymous items, includes some of Sappho, Corinna, Pindar, Philicus, fragments of dithyrambic poetry, hymns, songs and so on. There are seventeen examples of elegiac and iambic, 7th century BCE–3rd CE, including some Mimnermus, Amyntas, Leonidas, Antipater of Sidon, and Posidippus. The thirty items of hexameter poetry, 5th century BCE–6th CE are mostly unassignable but include Panyasis, Erinna (a lovely fragment of her 'Distaff'), Euphorion, Pancrates, and Dionysius (the 'Bassarica').The three-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of Select Papyri also includes volumes of public and private documents.
PrefaceAids To The ReaderTragedy, 5th And 4th Centuries BCE1. Aeschylus, Niobe2. Aeschylus, Dictyulci3. Sophocles, Gathering Of The Achaeans4. Sophocles, Eurypylus5. Sophocles, Scyrians6. Sophocles, Inachus7. Sophocles, The Searchers8. Euripides, Alcmeon Through Corinth9. Euripides, Alexander10. Euripides, Antiope11. Euripides, Cretans12. Euripides, Hypsipyle13. Euripides, Melanippe Captive14. Euripides, Melanippe The Wise15. Euripides, Pirithous16. Euripides, Stheneboea17. Euripides, Telephus18. Euripides, Fragments19. Ion, Omphale20. Anonymous ? Aeschylus, Myrmidons21. Anonymous ? Sophocles, Gathering Of The Achaeans22. Anonymous ? Sophocles, Niobe23. Anonymous ? Sophocles, Tantalus24. Anonymous ? Sophocles, Tereus25. Anonymous ? Sophocles, Tyro26. Anonymous ? Euripides, Alexander27. Anonymous ? Euripides, Meleager28. Anonymous ? Euripides, Oeneus29. Anonymous ? Hector30. Anonymous ? Hecuba81. Anonymous ? Oeneus, Or Schoencus, Or Phoenix32. Anonymous ? Phrixus33. Anonymous ? Seven Against Thebes34. Anonymous Speech Of A Heroine35. Anonymous Fragment36. Anonymous MaximOld Comedy, 5th Century BCE37. Epicharmus, Probably Odysseus The Deserter38. Cratinus, The Plutuses39. Pherecrates, Fragment40. Eupolis, The Demes41. Anonymous: ? Eupolis, Prospaltians42. Aristophanes, Fragments43. Plato, Fragment44. Anonymous : Women Conversing45. Anonymous : Fragments46. Anonymous : FragmentMiddle Comedy And New Comedy, 4th And 3rd Centuries BCE47. Anonymous : ? Philiscus, Birth Of Zeus48. Anonymous : ? Alexis49. Anonymous : A Feast50. Philemon, Sculptor, And A Fragment51. Timocles, Heroes, And Icarians52. Menander, Unpopular53. Menander, ? The Changeling54. Menander, Smicrines, Chaereas55. ? Menander, ? Theophoroumene56. Menander, Maxims57. Straton, Phoenicides58. Apollodorus, Fragment59. Anonymous : Cooks60. Anonymous : Prologue61. Anonymous : Moschion, Laches62. Anonymous Youth, Daos, Simon63. Anonymous Youth, Demeas, Slave61. Anonymous Strobilus65. Anonymous Phaedimus, Niceratus66. Anonymous Father, Mother, Daughter67. Anonymous Slave, Master68. Anonymous Youth, Slave69. Anonymous Sympathetic Slave70. Anonymous Numenius, Slave71. Anonymous Fragments72. Anonymous Two ProloguesMime73. Sophron, Fragment Of A Mime (V. BCE) 74. Anonymous "Drunkard " (? II.-I. BCE) 75. Anonymous Lament For A Cock (? I. CE) 76. Anonymous Charition (? II. CE) 77. Anonymous Adulteress (? II. CE). 78. Anonymous A Quarrel (? II. CE) 79. Anonymous Damsel In Distress (? III. CE) Lyric Poems80. Anonymous, Probably Archilochus (Early VII. BCE) 81. Sappho, Book I (Early VI. BCE) 82. Corinna, Orestes (Late VI. BCE) 83. Pindar, Fragments Of Two Poems (VI.-V. BCE) 84. Anonymous : Perhaps Bacchylides (Or Possibly Simonides) (Early V. BCE ?) 85. Anonymous : Divers Fragments Of Early Lyric Poetry (Uncertain And Various Dates, VI.-IV. BCE) 86. Anonymous : Scolia, Perhaps Attic (V.-IV. BCE) 87. Anonymous : Fragments Of Dithyrambic Poetry (V.-IV. BCE) 88. Anonymous : Fragments Of Dithyrambic Poetry (? IV. BCE) 89. Anonymous : ? Dithyrambic Poem (? IV. BCE) 90. Philicus, Hymn To Demeter (III. BCE) 91. Anonymous : Hymn To Demeter (III. BCE) 92. Anonymous : Four Hellenistic Fragments (? III.-II. BCE) 93. Anonymous : Late Hellenistic Anapaests (? II.-I. BCE) 94. Anonymous : A Visit To The Underworld (? II.-III. CE) 95. Anonymous : Metamorphoses (? II.-III. CE) 96. Anonymous : Record Of A Cure By Sarapis (? III. CE) 97. Anonymous : Sailor's Song (? II.-III. CE) 98. Anonymous : Sailor's Song (? III. CE). 99. Anonymous : Hymn To Fortune (? III. CE) 100. Anonymous : A Schoolboy's Recitation (IV. CE) Elegiac And Iambic Poems101. Mimnermus, Smyrneis (Late VII. BCE) 102. Epicharmea, Probably By Axiopistus (About 300 BCE) 103. Anonymous : Epigram For A Merry Company (III. BCE) 104. Poseidippus, Two Epigrams (III. BCE) 105. Anonymous : Two Epigrams (III. BCE) 106. Anonymous : Epigram On The Death Of Philicus (III. BCE) 107. Amyntas, Leonidas, Antipater Of Sidon (III.-II. BCE) 108. Anonymous : Epigram (III. BCE) 109. Anonymous : Two Epigrams (III. BCE) 110. Anonymous : Elegy About A War (III. BCE) 111. Anonymous : Poem In Praise Of An Officer (III. BCE) 112. Anonymous : Preface To An Astronomical Treatise (II. BCE) 113. Anonymous : Epigram (Late I. BCE). 114. Poseidippus : Elegy On Old Age (? I. CE) 115. Anonymous : Moral Fable (? II. CE) 116. Anonymous : Moral Maxims (Uncertain Date) 117. Anonymous : Epitaphs For Euprepius, By His Daughter (? III. CE) Hexameter Poems118. Panyasis, Heracles (Early V. BCE) 119. Anonymous: Fragment (? IV. BCE) 120. Erinna, The Distaff (IV. BCE) 121. Euphorion, Three Fragments (III. BCE) 122. Anonymous : Old Woman's Lament (? III.-II. BCE) 123. Anonymous : Bucolic (? III.-II. BCE) 124. Anonymous : Georgic (? III.-II. BCE) 125. Anonymous : Drinking-Song (? I. CE) 126. Anonymous : Hero And Leander (? I. CE) 127. Anonymous : Sayings Of The Seven Wise Men (Uncertain Date) 128. Pancrates, Antinous (II. CE) 129. Anonymous : Dionysus And Lycurgus (III. CE) 130. Anonymous : Praise Of Theon (? III. CE) 131. Anonymous : Treatise On Metres (III. CE) 132. Anonymous : Praise Of Maximus (III. CE) 133. Anonymous : ? Astyoche (? Iii. CE) 134. Dionysius, Bassarica (III.-IV. CE) 135. Anonymous : Persian War Of Diocletian and Galerius (Early IV. CE) 136. Anonymous : Creation Of The Universe (Early IV. CE) 137. Anonymous : Odyssey (III.-IV. CE). 138. Anonymous: Epicedeion For A Professor Of The University Of Berytus (IV. CE) 139. Anonymous : Epithalamion (? IV. CE) 140. Anonymous, Perhaps Pamprepius Of Panopolis, Two Poems (About 500 CE) 141. Anonymous : Praise Of A Roman General (Early V. CE) 142. Anonymous : Praise Of Germanus (Early V. CE) 143. Anonymous : Appeal To A Roman General(V. CE) 144. Anonymous : Victory Of A Roman General (V. CE) 145. Anonymous : Fragment (? V. CE). 146. Anonymous : Incantation To Cure Headache (? V. CE) 147. Anonymous : Address To The Nile (V.-VI. CE)Index Of Proper NamesIndex Of Editiones Principes
