uses of myth in literature - see especially chs. 2, 4, 5, 12. K. Schefold, Myth and Legend in Early Greek
Art (London, 1966) discusses the visual arts; J. Seznec, The Survival of the Pagan Gods (New York,
1961: paperback) traces the myths through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Hesiod
There is an English translation in the Loeb Classical Library volume (with the Homeric Hymns).
Modern text and commentary of great learning and interest are in the editions by M. L. West of the
Theogony (Oxford, 1966) and Works and Days (Oxford, 1978). The oriental material is discussed in
these two books; much of it is conveniently assembled by J. B. Pritchard (editor), Ancient Near Eastern
Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton: 3rd edn. 1968). A. R. Burn, The World of Hesiod
(London, 1936), puts the poet in his historical setting. The third chapter of H. Frankel, Early Greek
Poetry and Philosophy (Oxford, 1975), is a valuable discussion of Hesiod.
- Lyric And Elegiac Poetry (By Ewen Bowie)
Greek texts of the poets discussed in this chapter will be found in the following editions (whose
numeration is used in references within the chapter). The elegiac and iambic poets in Iambi et Elegi
Graeci, ed. M. L. West (Oxford, 1971-2), and in his OCT (which contains all fragments of importance
and alone has the new Archilochus, 196A) Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis (1980). The melic poets
in Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, edd. E. Lobel and D. L. Page (Oxford, 1955) for Sappho and
Alcaeus, and Poetae Melici Graeci, ed. D. L. Page (Oxford, 1968) for the remainder - a selection
containing all fragments of importance from both editions appears in the OCT Lyrica Graeca Selecta, ed.
D. L. Page (1968), and more recent fragments in Supplementum Lyricis Graecis, ed. D.L. Page (Oxford,
1974). Epigrams in the OCT Epigrammata Graeca, ed. D. L. Page (1975).
Greek texts with facing page translations into English are available in the Loeb Classical Library Greek
Lyric, ed. D. A. Campbell, vol. i Sappho and Alcaeus (1981, others forthcoming); this replaces the three-
volume Lyra Graeca, ed. J. M. Edmonds (Cambridge, Mass./London, 1922-7), which is unreliable as
well as outdated, but at present the only edition with translation of early melic poets other than the
Lesbians; the iambic and elegiac poets are to be found in J. M. Edmonds's Loeb, Greek Elegy and
Iambus (Cambridge, Mass./London, 1931). Selections of Greek texts with translation will be found in
the Penguin Book of Greek Verse, ed. C. A. Trypanis (Harmondsworth, 1971) and in the separate
volumes of the Oxford Book of Greek Verse, ed. C. M. Bowra (1930) and the Oxford Book of Greek
Verse in Translation, edd. T. F. Higham and C. M. Bowra (1938).
The best commentary on the poets up to and including Bacchylides is that of D. A. Campbell in his
selection Greek Lyric Poetry (London, 1967; 2nd edn. Bristol, 1981). For Bacchylides there is now a full
commentary in German in the edition by H. Maehler (with German translation, Leiden, 1982); English
translation by R. Fagles (New Haven, 1961). A. P. Burnett's The Art of Bacchylides (Cambridge, Mass./