An authoritative commentary on the surviving fragments of Greek lyric poetry up to the death of Aristotle. Usually small, textually corrupt and difficult to interpret, the fragments cast light on several aspects of Greek culture This book represents a detailed philological commentary on a gallery of numerous poets who are already classified as 'lesser' in the title and who have not yet received any in-depth analysis...The present volume deserves the credit of having taken a notable step in this direction - of course only for the cognoscenti to whom the book is aimed.