This is the first of a four-volume edition of Greek lyric fragments which takes account of recent papyrus finds and new editions of those works in which the fragments are preserved. A brief exegetical commentary and a more general testimonia vitae atque artis illuminate these often corrupt texts. `splendidly produced first volume ... If the standard of this first volume is maintained, we shall before the end of the century have a worth monument to English classical scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement