This book examines Greek songs composed between 440 and 323 BC and argues for the vividness and diversity of lyric culture.

The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, a

Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event.