...... HESIOD THE HOMERIC HYMNS AND HOMERICA
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY HUGH G. EVELYN-WHITE, M A.
•SOMETIMK SCHOLAR OF WADHAM COLLKOB, OXFORD
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CAMBRIDGE^ MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON WILLIAM HEINEM ANN LTD MOMXLHX CONTENTS
FA UK PRBFAOB '...... 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 m.—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 xil.—To Hera...... 436 xm.—To Demeter...... 436 xiv.—To the Mother of the Gods ...... 438 xv.—To Heracles the Lion-hearted ...... 438 XVI.—To Asclepius...... 440 vii CONTENTS thb Homeric hymns (continued)— 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 xxm.—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 xxvm.—To Athena...... •...... 452 xxix.—To Hestia...... 454 xxx.—To Earth the Mother of All...... 456 xxxi.—To Helios...... 458 XXXII.—To Selene ... 458 xxxm.—To the Dioscuri...... 460 THE EPIGRAMS 01? 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 Amphiaraiis...... 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 OP HOMER AND HESIOD...... 565 APPENDIX...... 599 ADDITIONS TO APPENDIX ...... 610 INDEX ...... 629 viii HESIOD
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