Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
by Hesiod
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This edition contains the collected works of Hesiod including Works and Days, The Shield of Heracles, The Theogeny as well as Homer's Hymns, Epigrams and fragments of the Epic Cycle. Hesiod was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming ...
Chapters (90)
- Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
- PREPARER’S NOTE
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- General
- The Boeotian School
- Life of Hesiod
- The Hesiodic Poems
- I. “The Works and Days”
- II. The Genealogical Poems
- Date of the Hesiodic Poems
- Literary Value of Homer
- The Ionic School
- The Trojan Cycle
- The Homeric Hymns
- The Epigrams of Homer
- The Burlesque Poems
- The Contest of Homer and Hesiod
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- HESIOD
- HESIOD’S WORKS AND DAYS
- THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS
- THE ASTRONOMY
- THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON
- THE GREAT WORKS
- THE IDAEAN DACTYLS
- THE THEOGONY
- THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701
- THE SHIELD OF HERACLES
- THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX
- THE GREAT EOIAE
- THE MELAMPODIA
- AEGIMIUS
- FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION
- DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS
- THE HOMERIC HYMNS
- I. TO DIONYSUS 2501
- II. TO DEMETER
- III. TO DELIAN APOLLO
- IV. TO HERMES
- V. TO APHRODITE
- VI. TO APHRODITE
- VII. TO DIONYSUS
- VIII. TO ARES
- IX. TO ARTEMIS
- X. TO APHRODITE
- XI. TO ATHENA
- XII. TO HERA
- XIII. TO DEMETER
- XIV. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS
- XV. TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED
- XVI. TO ASCLEPIUS
- XVII. TO THE DIOSCURI
- XVIII. TO HERMES
- XIX. TO PAN
- XX. TO HEPHAESTUS
- XXI. TO APOLLO
- XXII. TO POSEIDON
- XXIII. TO THE SON OF CRONOS, MOST HIGH
- XXIV. TO HESTIA
- XXV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO
- XXVI. TO DIONYSUS
- XXVII. TO ARTEMIS
- XXVIII. TO ATHENA
- XXIX. TO HESTIA
- XXX. TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL
- XXXI. TO HELIOS
- XXXII. TO SELENE
- XXXIII. TO THE DIOSCURI
- HOMER’S EPIGRAMS2601
- FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE
- THE WAR OF THE TITANS
- THE STORY OF OEDIPUS
- THE THEBAID
- THE EPIGONI
- THE CYPRIA
- THE AETHIOPIS
- THE LITTLE ILIAD
- THE SACK OF ILIUM
- THE RETURNS
- THE TELEGONY
- HOMERICA
- THE EXPEDITION OF AMPHIARAUS
- THE TAKING OF OECHALIA
- THE PHOCAIS
- THE MARGITES
- THE CERCOPES
- THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE
- OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST
- ENDNOTES
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