Malcolm Davies is Professor of Greek and Latin Literature at St John's College, Oxford. His publications include Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Volume I (OUP, 1991) and Sophocles' 'Trachiniae' (OUP, 1991).

• Abbreviations and General Bibliography List of Poets and Poems Commentaries I: Lesser Greek Lyric Fragments Assigned to Known Authors II: 'Popular' Poetry, Largely Fragmentary, in Lyric Metres III: Scolia: Drinking Songs Performed at Symposia IV: Anonymous Lyric Fragments, Including Those Preserved on Papyri, Lapidary Inscriptions and on Vases Index Nominum Index Verborum Index Rerum Index Locorum

With this commentary, Malcolm Davies has provided us with an invaluable instrument for studying the fragments of several of the poets included in Denys Page's Poetae Melici Graeci (nos. 696ff.), sometimes with testimonia, in an accompanying volume as is stated in the preface to this work. The commentary is extremely learned and provides the reader with a wealth of information and references to pertinent discussions in recent and older literature that enhance our appreciation of these fragments...it is clear that this is a work that any serious student of Greek lyric poetry will need to consult.

Malcolm Davies is Professor of Greek and Latin Literature at St John's College, Oxford. His publications include Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Volume I (OUP, 1991) and Sophocles' 'Trachiniae' (OUP, 1991).

• Abbreviations and General Bibliography List of Poets and Poems Commentaries I: Lesser Greek Lyric Fragments Assigned to Known Authors II: 'Popular' Poetry, Largely Fragmentary, in Lyric Metres III: Scolia: Drinking Songs Performed at Symposia IV: Anonymous Lyric Fragments, Including Those Preserved on Papyri, Lapidary Inscriptions and on Vases Index Nominum Index Verborum Index Rerum Index Locorum

With this commentary, Malcolm Davies has provided us with an invaluable instrument for studying the fragments of several of the poets included in Denys Page's Poetae Melici Graeci (nos. 696ff.), sometimes with testimonia, in an accompanying volume as is stated in the preface to this work. The commentary is extremely learned and provides the reader with a wealth of information and references to pertinent discussions in recent and older literature that enhance our appreciation of these fragments...it is clear that this is a work that any serious student of Greek lyric poetry will need to consult.

Malcolm Davies is Professor of Greek and Latin Literature at St John's College, Oxford. His publications include Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Volume I (OUP, 1991) and Sophocles' 'Trachiniae' (OUP, 1991).

• Abbreviations and General Bibliography List of Poets and Poems Commentaries I: Lesser Greek Lyric Fragments Assigned to Known Authors II: 'Popular' Poetry, Largely Fragmentary, in Lyric Metres III: Scolia: Drinking Songs Performed at Symposia IV: Anonymous Lyric Fragments, Including Those Preserved on Papyri, Lapidary Inscriptions and on Vases Index Nominum Index Verborum Index Rerum Index Locorum

With this commentary, Malcolm Davies has provided us with an invaluable instrument for studying the fragments of several of the poets included in Denys Page's Poetae Melici Graeci (nos. 696ff.), sometimes with testimonia, in an accompanying volume as is stated in the preface to this work. The commentary is extremely learned and provides the reader with a wealth of information and references to pertinent discussions in recent and older literature that enhance our appreciation of these fragments...it is clear that this is a work that any serious student of Greek lyric poetry will need to consult.