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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 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
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.
This file contains only that portion of the book in English; Greek texts are excluded. Where Greek characters appear in the original English text, transcription in CAPITALS is substituted.


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