The Shelves · Lyric (melic) poetry
Victory Odes and Dithyrambs
Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Known · AttestedCallimachus's own placement
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Lyric (melic) poetry: “dithyramb or paean (disputed)”
Known · AttestedCallimachus's own placementBacchylides of Ceos
Victory Odes and Dithyrambs
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 large part
Lost in the manuscript tradition; recovered from a papyrus bought in Egypt and published by Kenyon in 1897.
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · AttestedEdited in Alexandria.
In the cupboard: edited, classified or commented on by the Library's scholars.
Read it today
- Dithyrambs, Greek with English (Scaife Viewer) · original and translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
- Edmonds, Lyra Graeca III (public-domain Loeb scan, PDF) · a translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
- Jebb, Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments (1905) · a translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
III · In the show
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IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references
- P.Oxy. XX 2368
Modern scholarship (3)
- F. G. Kenyon, The Poems of Bacchylides from a Papyrus in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1897).
- D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric, 5 vols (Loeb Classical Library; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982-1993).
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)
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VICTORY ODES AND DITHYRAMBS