Chapter I: 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 EOIAE THE SHIELD OF HERACLES THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX THE GREAT EOIAE THE MELAMPODIA THE AEGIMIUS FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS

THE HOMERIC HYMNS I. TO DIONYSUS II. TO DEMETER III. TO 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

THE EPIGRAMS OF HOMER

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

THE CONTEST OF HOMER AND HESIOD

ENDNOTES

This file contains translations of the following works: Hesiod: _Works and Days_, _The Theogony_, fragments of _The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae_, _The Shield of Heracles_ (attributed to Hesiod), and fragments of various works attributed to Hesiod. Homer: _The Homeric Hymns_, _The Epigrams of Homer_ (both attributed to Homer).

Various: Fragments of the Epic Cycle (parts of which are sometimes attributed to Homer), fragments of other epic poems attributed to Homer, _The Battle of Frogs and Mice_, and _The Contest of Homer and Hesiod_.

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