"Aoidoi" is classical Greek for "bards," like Homer, or just "poets." This site is dedicated to the study of ancient Greek poetry from the Epics to Anacreontics. Most of the work is directed at producing versions of Greek poems with vocabulary, grammar and dialect notes for beginners.

New and notable:

• July 14 2008: now, for something less archaic, Mesomedes 3: Hymn to Nemesis.
• July 6 2008: more elegiacs, this time from Solon. Two poems in a single document, Solon 9 & 11.
• July 4 2008: more Mimnermus, 12, "The toils of the sun".
• June 22 2008: a new poem, Mimnermus 2, "Like the leaves of spring."
• May 30 2008: David Sansone has sent elegiacs: Thersites.
• February 3 2008: I have further updated the Delectus Indelectatus based on suggestions and comments sent to me by Tarik Wareh.
• November 15 2007: thanks to the kind help and permission of his son, Václav Pinkava, who sent me the Greek manuscript of the entire thing, I can present the opening lines to Jan Křesadlo's Astronautilia.
• November 11 2007: Theocritus 13: Hylas and to go with it, a transcription of the scholia on it.

I welcome email with comments, suggestions and criticisms, as well as offers of relevant articles and web links.