Notes on the Works and Days of HesiodUniversity of Chicago, 1918 - 226 pages |
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... Hymn to Demeter ) . This myth is not mentioned in Homer , where Persephone is associated with Hades as a dread goddess . The incident of Od . III 464 is developed into a marriage between Telemachus and Polycaste in the Catalogus ( Frag ...
... Hymn to Demeter ) . This myth is not mentioned in Homer , where Persephone is associated with Hades as a dread goddess . The incident of Od . III 464 is developed into a marriage between Telemachus and Polycaste in the Catalogus ( Frag ...
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... Hymns , are distinctly older than any other extant Greek Literature except the Iliad and Odyssey . ' In Herodotus II 53 Homer and Hesiod are referred to as ol monoaνTES Oeoyovínv " Eλnot . See also Plato , Sym . 178B ; Rep . 377E ...
... Hymns , are distinctly older than any other extant Greek Literature except the Iliad and Odyssey . ' In Herodotus II 53 Homer and Hesiod are referred to as ol monoaνTES Oeoyovínv " Eλnot . See also Plato , Sym . 178B ; Rep . 377E ...
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... Hymns , and the first 56 lines of the Shield , which is supposed to represent the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women . The principal episodes ( the Titanomachy and Zeus - Typhoeus conflict ) are grandiose in style , being apparently an attempt ...
... Hymns , and the first 56 lines of the Shield , which is supposed to represent the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women . The principal episodes ( the Titanomachy and Zeus - Typhoeus conflict ) are grandiose in style , being apparently an attempt ...
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... Hymn to the Erides ( 11-26 ) , which seems to be a general introduction to the part of the poem addressed to Perses ( 27-694 ) . It is an attempt to discriminate between two kinds of Erides and contains an idea essentially different ...
... Hymn to the Erides ( 11-26 ) , which seems to be a general introduction to the part of the poem addressed to Perses ( 27-694 ) . It is an attempt to discriminate between two kinds of Erides and contains an idea essentially different ...
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... hymn to the Erides the beginning of the poem . And they showed me , he continues , a leaden copy much mutilated by time ; and it had the Works written . on it . These three citations contain practically all the testimony of antiquity ...
... hymn to the Erides the beginning of the poem . And they showed me , he continues , a leaden copy much mutilated by time ; and it had the Works written . on it . These three citations contain practically all the testimony of antiquity ...
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