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Lyde

Λύδη

Known · Probablein Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Lyric (melic) poetry: “elegy”

Conjecturedvery likely class

Antimachus of Colophon

Lyde

Λύδη

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in fragments

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Probable

Probably held in the Library.

In the cupboard: no source names the Alexandrian copy, but its scholars' use of it makes one very likely.

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Fragments edited with commentary by V. J. Matthews, Antimachus of Colophon (Leiden, 1996).

III · In the show

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references
  • Callimachus fr. 398 Pfeiffer
Modern scholarship (2)
  • A. Cameron, Callimachus and His Critics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
  • R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)

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