Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this bookĬambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010Ĭambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © Cambridge University Press 2009 This publication is in copyright. Each chapter is provided with a guide to further reading, and the volume includes a chronology, glossary and guide to editions and translations. It takes account of the exciting new papyrus finds and new critical approaches which have greatly advanced our understanding of both the corpus itself and of the socio-cultural contexts in which lyric pieces were produced, performed and transmitted. This Companion provides an accessible introduction to this fascinating and diverse body of poetry and its later reception.
It particularly flourished in the archaic and classical periods, and some of its practitioners, such as Sappho and Pindar, had significant cultural influence in subsequent centuries down to the present day. T h e ca m b r i d g e c o m p a n i o n t o g re e k l y ri c Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinikion.
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