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...ic Hymns and Homerica A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (19... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (19... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Contents Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica....................................... ................................................................... 9 Life of Hesiod ....................................................................... ...................................................................... 10 The Hesiodic Poems ............................................................... .............................................................. 15 Date of the Hesiodic Poems ............................................................... ................................................. 29 The Contest of Homer and Hesiod ....................................................................... ............................................................. 31 THE WORKS OF HESIOD ....................................................................... .............................................. 240 OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST .................................................
... contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arrangement adopted ...
...Contents Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica .................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE................................................................
................55 b. On the hero, or epic poetry as a technique for unveiling time......................................65 III. TIME IN HESIOD’S MYTHOLGY AND PYTHAGOREAN THEOPHANY. SACRED SOURCES OF CIRCULAR TIME IN CLASSICAL GREECE.................................................................................................................
...e will not discuss Charaxos. “Here, do me a favor, read me something from Hesiod,” he says, and hands VOICES FROM THE PAST 62 me the poet’s a... ...aven’t changed: this is an earlier Charaxos, who bribed judges to deprive Hesiod of his inheritance. If I did not know better, I could almost believ...
...e will not discuss Charaxos. “Here, do me a favor, read me something from Hesiod,” he says, and hands VOICES FROM THE PAST 66 me the poet’s a... ...aven’t changed: this is an earlier Charaxos, who bribed judges to deprive Hesiod of his inheritance. If I did not know better, I could almost believ...
...the name Uranus is there fore correct. If I could remember the genealogy of Hesiod, I would have gone on and tried more conclusions of the same sort ... ...Tell me if my view is right. HERMOGENES: Let me hear. SOCRATES: You know how Hesiod uses the word? HERMOGENES: I do not. SOCRATES: Do you not remember... ...ons upon the earth, Beneficent, averters of ills, guardians of mortal men.’ (Hesiod, Works and Days.) HERMOGENES: What is the inference? Cratylus – Pl... ... them purely accidental? Compare the line in which Homer, and, as I believe, Hesiod also, tells of ‘Ocean, the origin of Gods, and mother Tethys (Il.—... ...f Gods, and mother Tethys (Il.— the line is not found in the extant works of Hesiod.).’ And again, Orpheus says, that ‘The fair river of Ocean was the... ...– Plato 37 the foam ( aphros), may be fairly accepted on the au thority of Hesiod. HERMOGENES: Still there remains Athene, whom you, Socrates, as an... ...ich is, perhaps, the very great est of all. HERMOGENES: No, indeed; but, as Hesiod says, and I agree with him, ‘to add little to little’ is worth whi...
...ch he lived. Thus, the fable of the “Hawk and the Nightingale” is related by Hesiod; 4 the “Eagle wounded by an Arrow, winged with its own Feath ers,... ... fraught with lessons of general utility, and of universal applica tion. 4 Hesiod. Opera et Dies, verse 202. 5 Aeschylus. Fragment of the Myrmidon... ... et la pensee; mais les paroles sont d’un autre .” And again, “ C’est donc a Hesiode, que j’aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l’invention; mais s...
... been heard by Archilochus and Kallinus—in some cases even by Arktinus and Hesiod—as genuine Homeric matter [Note: Prolegg. pp. xxxii., xxxvi., &c.] A... ...the propriety than for the repetition, I shall add a further con- jecture. Hesiod, dividing the world into its different ages, has placed a fourth age... ...said in his sense to be the master even of those who surpassed him. [Note: Hesiod. Opp. et Dier. Lib. I. vers. 155, &c.] In all these objections we se... ...diligently compared this with the description of the shield of Hercules by Hesiod. He remarks that, “with two or three exceptions, the imagery differs... ...tes in itself one of the beauties of the work. The 488 The Iliad of Homer Hesiodic images are huddled together without connection or congruity: Mars ... ...man on the shore with his casting net, are minutely represented. As to the Hesiodic images themselves, the leading remark is, that they catch at beaut... ...sive—while in those of war and tumult it may be thought, perhaps, that the Hesiodic poet has more than once the advantage.” 218 “This legend is one of...
... which then, it seems, consisted chiefly in grave maxims, such as the poet Hesiod got his great fame by, in his book of Works and Days. And, indeed, a... ...presented ever as a very wicked man, in the Athenian theaters; neither did Hesiod avail him by calling him “the most royal Minos,” nor Homer, who styl... ...ume One a verse which Hereas, the Megarian, says, was formerly in the poet Hesiod’s works, but put out by Pisistratus, in like manner as he added in H... ... enamored of Pindar for his verses, and the divine power rendered honor to Hesiod and Archilochus after their death for the sake of the Muses; there i... ...rfluities, to show some concern for competent necessaries. In his time, as Hesiod 134 V olume One says, —”Work was a shame to none,” nor was any dist... ...hould consider any to be so, and whether Heraclitus did well in upbraiding Hesiod for distinguishing them into fortunate and unfortunate, as ignorant ... ...and beneficial to all, rather than to those that were endowed with it. Yet Hesiod urges us alike to just dealing and to care of our households, and in...
...ears of 1814 and 1815 the list is extensive. It includes, in Greek, Homer, Hesiod, Theocritus, the histories of Thucydides and Herodotus, and Diogenes...
... been heard by Archilochus and Kallinus—in some cases even by Arktinus and Hesiod—as genuine Homeric matter. As far as the evi dences on the case, as...
...eks produced, in the place of Tasso, another act, the subject of which was Hesiod inspired by the muses. In this I found the secret of introducing a p... ...er in the Rue Jean Saint Denis, near the opera-house, I composed my act of Hesiod, he sometimes came to dine with me tete-a-tete. We sent for our dinn...
...ection the loftiest do not escape. There is a similarity between Homer and Hesiod, between Aeschylus and Euripides, between Virgil and Horace, between...
...pending profusely, taking whatever he could get, and selling to any buyer. Hesiod tells us to drink with- out stinting of 822 V olume Two The end and...
...is restricted to Homer, and that he knows nothing of inferior poets, such as Hesiod and Archilochus;—he brightens up and is wide awake when Homer is b... ...e. But just now I should like to ask you a question: Does your art extend to Hesiod and Archilochus, or to Homer only? ION: T o Homer only; he is in h... ...n himself quite enough. SOCRATES: Are there any things about which Homer and Hesiod agree? ION: Yes; in my opinion there are a good many . SOCRATES: A... ... good many . SOCRATES: And can you interpret better what Homer says, or what Hesiod says, about these mat ters in which they agree? ION: I can interp... ...lato 9 do not agree?—for example, about divination, of which both Homer and Hesiod have something to say,— ION: V ery true: SOCRATES: Would you or a ... ...TES: But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which ... ...oth? ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And you say that Homer and the other poets, such as Hesiod and Archilochus, speak of the same things, although not in the sam...
... replied, than making or working are the same; thus much I have learned from Hesiod, who says that ‘work is no disgrace.’ Now do you imagine that if ... ... proper business, and what is hurtful, not his busi ness: and in that sense Hesiod, and any other wise man, may be reasonably supposed to call him wi...
...the authority of poets and philosophers in support of their doc trines; for Hesiod says that ‘potter is jealous of pot ter, bard of bard;’ and subtl... ...emy of the like, the good of the good?—Yes, and he quoted the au thority of Hesiod, who says: ‘Potter quarrels with potter, bard with bard, Beggar wi...
...t as yet learned the lesson, which phi losophy was teaching, that Homer and Hesiod, if not banished from the state, or whipped out of the assembly , ...
...morial; neither poet nor prose writer has ever affirmed that he had any . As Hesiod says:— ‘First Chaos came, and then broad bosomed Earth, The everla... ...: ‘First in the train of gods, he fashioned Love.’ And Acusilaus agrees with Hesiod. Thus nu merous are the witnesses who acknowledge Love to be the ... ... of the gods, and youthful ever . The ancient doings among the gods of which Hesiod and Parmenides spoke, if the tradition of them be true, were done ... ...mon offspring are fairer and more immortal. Who, when he thinks of Homer and Hesiod and other great poets, would not rather have their children than o...
... What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again. I, to...
...y, rain upon the pi ous; and this accords with the testimony of the noble Hesiod and Homer, the first of whom says, that the gods make the oaks of t... ...ies to whom they appeal, now smoothing the path of vice with the words of Hesiod;— Vice may be had in abundance without trouble; the way is... ...you would term the greater. Those, I said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the great story telle... ...ich the poet told about Uranus, and which was a bad lie too, — I mean what Hesiod says that Uranus did, and how Cronus retaliated on him. The doings... ...opriate the whole State to himself, then he will have to learn how wisely Hesiod spoke, when he said, ‘half is more than the whole.’ If he were to co... ...at he is of the golden race? To be sure. Nay, have we not the authority of Hesiod for affirming that when they are dead They are holy angels... ... guardian power of testing the metal of your different races, which, like Hesiod’s, are of gold and silver and brass and iron. And so iron will be mi... ...rs. And is it con ceivable that the contemporaries of Homer, or again of Hesiod, would have allowed either of them to go about as rhapso dists, if ... ...ories of justice, which, as you were saying, are to be found in Homer and Hesiod; but justice in her own nature has been shown to be best for the sou...
...isguised themselves under various names, some under that of poets, as Homer, Hesiod, and Simonides, some, of hierophants and prophets, as Orpheus and ... ...sistent with himself. I dare say that Prodicus and many others would say, as Hesiod says, ‘On the one hand, hardly can a man become good, For the gods...
...o they agree about his father, whom one 143 supposeth, like the father of Hesiod, a trades- man or merchant; another, 144 a husbandman; another, 145... ...n general all such) to the reader, remarking only that Chaos (according to Hesiod’s [Greek: Theogonia]), was the progenitor of all the gods.—Scribleru... ...s to Mr Pope protesting his innocence. His chief work was a translation of Hesiod, to which Theobald wrote notes 286 The Poetical Works of Alexander ...
...ophists and rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and Sappho, Aeschylus and Sophocles; and the Platonic So...
...end to other matters, in my opinion he would have been as famous as Homer or Hesiod, or any poet. And what was the tale about, Critias? said Amynander...
... they usually repeated certain pleasant verses of Virgil’s agriculture, of Hesiod and of Politian’s husbandry, would set a-broach some witty Latin epi... ...tained by virtue of the command of Jupiter to (one) Pamyla. And in effect, Hesiod, in his Hierarchy, placed the good demons (call them angels if you w... ...es me verily think that the supremest height of heroic virtue described by Hesiod consisteth in being a debtor, wherein I held the first degree in my ... ...at fear was ever the atten- dant of true and sincere love. Now because, as Hesiod saith, A good beginning of anything is the half of it; or, Well begu... ..., from the total sum, which is the result of the divers ages calculated by Hesiod, reckoned their life to be 9720 years; that sum consisting of four s... ...here was the seat of Arete— that is as much as to say, virtue—described by Hesiod. This, however, with submission to better judgments. The ruler of th... ...doing nothing, a rent- charge and dead unnecessary weight on the earth, as Hesiod saith; afraid, as we judged, of offending or lessening their paunch....
...him who neither has nor can re- ceive them, let him hear his sentence from Hesiod: He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things; Good ag... .... 8. P . 183, I. 20. [Greek: kerameis]. The Proverb in full is a line from Hesiod, [Greek: kahi keramehus keramei koteei kai tektoni tekton]. P . 184,...
...e by nature one. Now of these two societies the domestic is the first, and Hesiod is right when he says, “First a house, then a wife, then an ox for t... ...ition in one state to an- other, as a democracy against a tyranny, as says Hesiod, “a potter against a potter;” for the extreme of a democracy is a ty...
...risons; but we were the truest observers of this sunny day. Accord ing to Hesiod, “The seventh is a holy day, For then Latona brought forth ... ...ere shall we find a more refined society? That highway down from Homer and Hesiod to Horace and Juvenal is more attractive than the Appian. Reading th...
...ore than once, as applicable to his own case, the old proverbial riddle of Hesiod, ———, the half is more than the whole. What did he mean by that? We ...
... a vul- ture continually devoured his liver, that grew to meet its hunger. Hesiod says that, before the time of Prometheus, mankind were exempt from s...
...ience caused it to be discovered by him himself, who was to suffer for it. Hesiod corrects the saying of Plato, that pun- ishment closely follows sin,...
...b and the Song and Proverbs of Solomon, as well as the lays of Orpheus and Hesiod, seemed to bear valid wit- ness in its favor. My friend had taken th...
...yls of the Nazarene, The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Cid, Roland at Roncesval...
...ent writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (added he) I had looked into a great m...
...non, the verses of Theognis and Phocyllides, and some part of the works of Hesiod. They might continue in this manner, for a long time, merely to mult...