Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica

Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Rampton, NR. Cambridge.
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Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6
PREFACE………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 7
General ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 7
The Boeotian School ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9
Life of Hesiod …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10
The Hesiodic Poems ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 13
II. The Genealogical Poems:………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 15
Date of the Hesiodic Poems ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 18
Literary Value of Homer …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 19
The Ionic School ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 20
The Trojan Cycle ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 21
The Homeric Hymns …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 24
The Epigrams of Homer …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 28
The Burlesque Poems…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 29
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 29
BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 31
THE WORKS OF HESIOD ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 38
WORKS AND DAYS (832 lines) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 62
THE ASTRONOMY (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 62
THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 65
THE GREAT WORKS (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 65
THE IDAEAN DACTYLS (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 66
THE THEOGONY (1,041 lines)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 66
THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………….. 94
THE SHIELD OF HERACLES (480 lines) …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 126
THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 137
THE GREAT EOIAE (fragments) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 138
THE MELAMPODIA (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 143
AEGIMIUS (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 145
FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 147
DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 150
WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO HOMER………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 152
THE HOMERIC HYMNS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 152
HOMER’S EPIGRAMS …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 212
FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 216
THE WAR OF THE TITANS (fragments)…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 216
THE STORY OF OEDIPUS (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 217
THE THEBAID (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 218THE EPIGONI (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 219
THE CYPRIA (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 220
THE AETHIOPIS (fragments) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 227
THE LITTLE ILIAD (fragments) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 228
THE SACK OF ILIUM (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 232
THE RETURNS (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 234
THE TELEGONY (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 236
NON-CYCLIC POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO HOMER ……………………………………………………………………………….. 237
THE EXPEDITION OF AMPHIARAUS (fragments) ………………………………………………………………………………….. 237
THE TAKING OF OECHALIA (fragments) ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 237
THE PHOCAIS (fragments) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 238
THE MARGITES (fragments) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 239
THE CERCOPES (fragments) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 240
THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE (303 lines) …………………………………………………………………………………….. 240
OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST ……………………………………………. 248
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