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These Fragments are the few surviving lines of Lamprocles, an Athenian poet of the early fifth century BC whom Athenaeus calls a dithyrambic poet. Two short quotations preserve the opening of his famous hymn to Athena, invoking "Pallas, sacker of cities", and a third fragment, quoted by Athenaeus, addresses the Pleiades as sharing their name with winged doves. Nothing else of his work survives.
The hymn to Pallas was a classic of old Athenian education: in Aristophanes' Clouds the Just Argument recalls boys singing it as an example of the traditional music of Athens' great days. The fragments offer a rare glimpse of early Athenian choral song and of the repertoire that later generations remembered as old-fashioned and dignified.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: PMG 735–736). 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).