神統記／仕事と日 — Hesiod
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Author : Hesiod Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn-White Release date : July 5, 2008 [eBook #348] Most recently updated: January 12, 2020 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348 Credits : Produced by Douglas B. Killings, and David Widger *** START OF 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 . 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. Project Gutenberg Editor’s Note: 262 footnotes notes previously scattered through the text have been moved to the end of the file and each given an unique number. There are links to and from each footnote. PREPARER’S NOTE In order to make this file more accessible to the average computer user, the preparer has found it necessary to re-arrange some of the material. The preparer takes full responsibility for his choice of arrangement. A few endnotes have been added by the preparer, and some additions have been supplied to the original endnotes of Mr. Evelyn-White’s. Where this occurs I have noted the addition with my initials “DBK”. Some endnotes, particularly those concerning textual variations in the ancient Greek text, are here omitted. PREFACE This volume contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arrangement adopted in this edition, by which the complete and fragmentary poems are restored to the order in which they would probably have appeared had the Hesiodic corpus survived intact, is unusual, but should not need apology; the true place for the Catalogues (for example), fragmentary as they are, is certainly after the Theogony . In preparing the text of the Homeric Hymns my chief debt—and it is a heavy one—is to the edition of Allen and Sikes (1904) and to the series of articles in the Journal of Hellenic Studies (vols. xv. sqq .) by T.W. Allen. To the same scholar and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press I am greatly indebted for permission to use the restorations of the Hymn to Demeter , lines 387-401 and 462-470, printed in the Oxford Text of 1912. Of the fragments of the Epic Cycle I have given only such as seemed to possess distinct importance or interest, and in doing so have relied mostly upon Kinkel’s collection and on the fifth volume of the Oxford Homer (1912). The texts of the Batrachomyomachia and of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod are those of Baumeister and Flach respectively: where I have diverged from these, the fact has been noted. Owing to the circumstances of the present time I have been prevented from giving to the Introduction that full revision which I should have desired. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Rampton, NR. Cambridge. Sept . 9 th , 1914. INTRODUCTION General The early Greek epic—that is, poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary form—passed through the usual three phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline. No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down to us. So reconstructed, the earliest period appears