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Papyrus Fragments gathers a small set of papyrus scraps connected with Alcman, the choral lyric poet of Sparta active in the late seventh century BC, as edited by Denys Page in his Supplementum Lyricis Graecis. The first three pieces are brief lyric remnants, including a golden-haired god and a swan. The last two come from an ancient prose commentary that discusses Alcman himself.
Though very fragmentary, these papyri show how Alcman's poems circulated in Roman Egypt and how ancient scholars debated his life, including, it seems, his homeland and date. They add a few words to his known poetry and a glimpse of the scholarship that surrounded it.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Page, SLG S1–S5). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).