Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica (1920)
translated by Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White
1982376Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica1920Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White
Engraving of the Dionysus Cup

DIONYSUS CROSSING THE SEA.

FROM GERHARD AUSERLESENE VASENBILDER.

HESIOD

THE HOMERIC HYMNS AND

HOMERICA


WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

HUGH G. EVELYN-WHITE, M.A.

SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD





LONDON : WILLIAM HEINEMANN

NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

MCMXX

First printed 1914

Reprinted 1920

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE  v
INTRODUCTION  ix
BIBLIOGRAPHY xliii
HESIOD 1-283
Works and Days  2
The Divination by Birds  64
The Astronomy  66
The Precepts of Chiron  72
The Great Works  74
The Idaean Dactyls  76
The Theogony  78
The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae   154
The Shield of Heracles 220
The Marriage of Ceyx 254
The Great Eoiae 256
The Melampodia 266
The Aegimius 270
Fragments of Unknown Position 274
Doubtful Fragments 280
THE HOMERIC HYMNS 285-463
I.—To Dionysus 286
II.—To Demeter 288
III.—To Apollo 324
IV.—To Hermes 362
V.—To Aphrodite 406
VI.—To Aphrodite 426
VII.—To Dionysus 428
VIII.—To Ares 432
IX.—To Artemis 434
X.—To Aphrodite 434
XI.—To Athena 436
XII.—To Hera 436
XIII.—To Demeter 436
XIV.—To the Mother of the Gods 438
XV.—To Heracles the Lion-hearted 438
XVI.—To Asclepius 440
XVII.—To the Dioscuri 440
XVIII.—To Hermes 440
XIX.—To Pan 442
XX.—To Hephaestus 446
XXI.—To Apollo 446
XXII.—To Poseidon 448
XXIII.—To the Son of Cronus, Most High 448
XXIV.—To Hestia 448
XXV.—To the Muses and Apollo 450
XXVI.—To Dionysus 450
XXVII.—To Artemis 452
XXVIII.—To Athena 452
XXIX.—To Hestia 454
XXX.—To Earth the Mother of All 456
XXXI.—To Helios 458
XXXII.—To Selene 458
XXXIII.—To the Dioscuri 460
THE EPIGRAMS OF HOMER 465
THE EPIC CYCLE 479
The War of the Titans 480
The Story of Oedipus 482
The Thebais 484
The Epigoni 486
The Cypria 488
The Aethiopis 506
The Little Iliad 508
The Sack of Ilium 520
The Returns 524
The Telegony 530
HOMERICA—
The Expedition of Amphiaraüs 532
The Taking of Oechalia 532
The Phocais 534
The Margites 536
The Cercopes 538
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice 541
THE CONTEST OF HOMER AND HESIOD 565
APPENDIX 599
INDEX 611

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