The Lives of the Greek Poets

This second edition of Lives of the Greek Poets offers a wider perspective on literary biography than the 1981 version, and aims to provide a more sympathetic portrait of the writers who tried to create biographies for the poets whose works they admired and sought to interpret for posterity. It takes advantage of recent studies in ancient reception and whenever possible describes the aims of individual biographers, and gives some indication of how biographical traditions developed over time.

Mary R. Lefkowitz is Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of many books on classical culture, including Women in Greek Myth, First-Person Fictions, Not Out of Africa, and Greek Gods, Human Lives. She is co-editor of Women's Life in Greece and Rome and Black Athena Revisited.

Preface
Introduction
Hesiod
Homer
Eight Archaic Poets
Solon
Simonides
Pindar
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Comic Poets
Hellenistic Poets
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Notes
Index