From a podcast episode called Philosophy and Religion in Classical Greece I heard Dr Isabelle Pafford read the 7th Century BCE elegaic poet, Mimnermus. For a fragment two and a half millenia old it was suprisingly accessible.
We are as leaves in jeweled springtime growing, Open to the sunlight's quickening rays. So joy, we, in our span of youth, unknowing if God shall bring us good or evil days Two Fates beside you stand. The one has sorrow, Dull Age's fruit; that other gives the boon of Death. For Youth's fair flower has no tomorrow And lives but as a sunlit afternoon
Apparently, his poems were set by himself to flute music.
The whole podcast series, History 4A The Ancient Mediterranean World on the webcast/courses pages here.
