Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies

ΑΟΙΔΟΙ: Greek poetry from the Epics to Anacreontics

[First posted in AWOL 21 March 2011. Updated 8 September 2013]

"Aoidoi" is classical Greek for "bards," like Homer, or just "poets." This site is dedicated to the study of ancient Greek poetry from the Epics to Anacreontics. Most of the work is directed at producing versions of Greek poems with vocabulary, grammar and dialect notes for beginners. 

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  For the confused beginner, Greek Dialects - Where to Start
  
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  Lesbian Aeolic.
  
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  Choral Doric
  
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  Bucolic Doric
  

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  A general introduction to Greek meter (PDF)
  
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  In Some Comments on the Epic Caesura I give a possible origin for the heroic hexameter, and then analyze the first 21 lines of Iliad A with special attention to the caesura.
  
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  In Reciting the Heroic Hexameter I present one way to recite hexameters. The PDF has links to MP3 examples.
  
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  The Error of Caragounis, a summary of some problems with C. Caragounis' notion that Ancient and Modern Greek are pronounced identically.
  
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  A reference: Words with Digamma in Epic.
  
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  Which word shapes go where: Localization in the Hexameter. On pp.53-57 of Chad Bochan's notes on iambic comp are localization tables for iambic trimeters.
  

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  Greek Verse Composition
  
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  καὶ τὰ λοιπά, my place for random musings on Greek or Poetic matters.
  

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  Technical details for Aoidoi.org. Of course, I have also had help.
  
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  Submission Guidelines
  

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  Alcaeus
  
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    Fragments 335 & 338
    
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  Anacreon and Anacreontics
  
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    To Dionysus.
    
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    Anacreon 358.
    
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    Anacreon 395. Anacreontic
    
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    7 (6B). To himself "The women say 'you're old, Anacreon.'"
    
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    21 (21B). Drink up!
    
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  The Greek Anthology
  
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    Book X, 21. by Philodemus
    
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    A more tidy collection, Poems from the Greek Anthology.
    
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  Archilochus
  
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    Archilochus 13
    
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    Archilochus 196A, the Cologne Epode
    
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  Bion
  
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    Bion 9: who the Muses will, and will not, help.
    
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    Bion 11: asking for help from Hesperus.
    
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  Hesiod
  
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    From the Works and Days, a description of winter, lines 504-535 (em Português)
    
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  Homer
  
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    The Shield of Achilles, Iliad 18.478-608, by Nicholas Swift.
    
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  Homeric Hymns
  
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    2. to Demeter
    
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    6. to Aphrodite
    
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    9. to Artemis (em Português)
    
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    20. to Hephestus
    
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  Ibycus
  
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    "In spring..." Ibycus 286
    
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    "I tremble like a racehorse..." Ibycus 287
    
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  Mesomedes
  
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    Mesomedes 1: two hymns to the Muses
    
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    Mesomedes 3: Hymn to Nemesis
    
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  Mimnermus
  
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    Nanno 1
    
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    "Like the leaves of spring"
    
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    Mimnermus 5
    
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    "The toils of the sun"
    
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  Pindar
  
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    Olympian 1
    
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    Olympian 11
    
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    Olympian 14
    
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    Isthmian 2
    
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  Sappho
  
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    Sappho 1: To Aphrodite
    
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    PMG 976: "Insomnia"
    
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    "Some Say," Sappho 16
    
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    "He's lucky as the gods," Sappho 31
    
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    "Chase after the beautiful gifts of the Muses," Sappho 58
    
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    "As when the moon outshines the stars," Sappho 96
    
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  Simonides of Ceos
  
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    Elegy - Simonides 29 (West 19-20)
    
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    Who Died at Thermopylae
    
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    Danae
    
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  Solon
  
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    Solon 9 & 11.
    
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  Theocritus
  

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  Theognis
  
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    Theognis 1-4, to Apollo
    
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    Theognis 5-10, also to Apollo
    
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    Theognis 11-14, to Artemis
    
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    Theognis 133-142, on the limits of human action.
    
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  Anonymous
  
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    The Rhodian Swallow Song
    
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    Dead Adonis
    
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  καὶ τὰ λοιπά — random works that don't fit elsewhere
  
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    Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus.
    
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    Delectus Indelectatus: brief, cranky poems, mostly from the Anthology
    
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    Menander, fragment 614 (em Portugeês).