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Title: Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Author: Hesiod
Translator: Hugh G. Evelyn-White
Release date: July 5, 2008 [eBook #348]
Most recently updated: June 22, 2020
Language: English
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Produced by Douglas B. Killings, and David Widger
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Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
by Homer and Hesiod
Contents
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 C…