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Introduction
When using the Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell-Scott-Jones (LSJ), readers face the
problem that many citations of the early Greek poets are to editions which are out of print
and have been superseded by works which give different numbers to the fragments.
Although their comparationes numerorum provide helpful 'back bearings' to the earlier
editions, they do not constitute a convenient method of linking from citations in LSJ. In
addition, users of the Thesaurus linguae Graecae (TLG) CD-ROM may have no access to
them. 1
Yet LSJ remains the most widely-consulted Ancient Greek dictionary. It would therefore
be useful to have a unified way of linking its citations of the poets to the modern editions.
This listing undertakes the task. The authors and works covered are summarised below,
grouped approximately by genre.
Lyric and iambic poets:
Mappings are given for Alcaeus, Alcman, Anacreon, Archilochus, Bacchylides,
Callimachus (Aet., Epigr., Hec., Hymni, Iambi, fragments), Carmina popularia, Corinna,
Hipponax, Ibycus, Ion, Lyrica adespota (in Page PMG listed as Fragmenta adespota),
Philoxenus, Pindar (Paeanes, Parthenia, Dithyrambi), Praxilla, Sappho, Scolia (Carmina
convivalia in PMG), Simonides, Stesichorus, Timocreon, and Timotheus. Pratinas and the
Carmina Anacreontea are not listed, since the LSJ numbering is retained in modern
editions. 2
Epigrams:
Epigrams by lyric and iambic poets are included with their other fragments. Citations from
the Anthology (AP, APl., and App.Anth.) retain the same numbering in most modern
editions, apart from the collections of Gow & Page and FGE. An appendix links the LSJ
numbers to these volumes.
Bucolic and elegiac poets:
Poets are not listed if their LSJ numbering is retained in modern editions. These authors
include: Callinus, Demodocus, Mimnermus, Moschus, Semonides, and Theocritus. 3
However, references are given for Theoc., Beren. and Syrinx; and mappings are given for
the fragments of Solon and Tyrtaeus which differ in West IEG, and for the minor poems
and fragments of Bion. The division of Theognis into Books 1 and 2 is also given.
Epic fragments:
Citations of Cypria, Epigoni, Il.Parv., Il.Pers., Nosti, and Titanomachia are quite rare in
LSJ, but all the fragments are mapped, as are the Homeric hymns. For Hesiodic
fragments, readers are directed to the concordance in Merkelbach-West.
Comic fragments:
While most fragments of Aristophanes and Menander have the same numbering in LSJ
and TLG, much new material has been discovered, and fragments have been extensively
renumbered in modern editions. References are given here to Kassel-Austin's PCG III.2
(for Aristophanes) and VI.2 (Menander). 4 For Menander, mappings are given for line
numbers of plays which are named in LSJ, and for fragments which appear in Sandbach.
1 Citations in Montanari's GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca and the Diccionario griego-español (DGE)
often correspond to those in LSJ, but cannot always be so matched.
2 The editions are Bergk III and PMG /GL III (Pratinas); Preisendanz and West Anacreont. (Anacreontea).
3 The fragments of Callinus, Demodocus, Mimnermus, and Semonides are collected in Bergk II and IEG II;
and those of Moschus and Theocritus in Wilamowitz Bucol. and Gow.
4 The other Attic comic fragments are collected in PCG II, IV-V, and VII, with adespota in VIII
(comparationes with Kock I-III). Doric fragments are in PCG I (comparatio with Kaibel, pp.333-5).
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