Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

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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