Hesiod · c. 700 BC
Fragments
ἈποσπάσματαOf Hesiod's other poems only quotations survive, preserved by ancient scholars, commentators and a few papyri. This collection follows Evelyn-White's arrangement: first the Catalogue of Women, also called the Eoiae, which traced the heroes and heroines of Greece through the women the gods loved, then the Marriage of Ceyx, the Great Eoiae, the Melampodia, the Aegimius, the Astronomy and the Precepts of Chiron. References are to the part and the fragment number of this edition, so 1.14 is the fourteenth fragment of the Catalogue. The poems are not Hesiod's own work in every case, and the ancient attributions are given as the translator reports them.
Contents · 17 passages
- 1.1–13Deucalion, Hellen and their descendants732 words
- 1.14–18Atalanta, Danaus and the daughters of Proetus605 words
- 1.19–29Agenor's line, Thebes and Boeotia331 words
- 1.30–49Arcadia and the voyage of the Argonauts521 words
- 1.50–60Aeacus, Peleus and Thetis475 words
- 1.61–67Asclepius, Echemus and the Tyndarids354 words
- 1.68The suitors of Helen856 words
- 1.69–71The Trojan War and the house of Atreus516 words
- 1.72–85Athens, Crete and central Greece477 words
- 1.86–96Dionysus, Coronis and Cyrene299 words
- 1.97–99Ellopia, a fierce boar and the house of Amphiaraus505 words
- 2.1–3.16Marriage of Ceyx and the Great Eoiae1159 words
- 4.1–8Melampodia500 words
- 5.1–6Aegimius294 words
- 6.1–7.9Fragments of unknown position and of doubtful authorship532 words
- 8.1–5Astronomy704 words
- 9.1–8Precepts of Chiron and other fragments279 words
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English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). Original text: Hugh G. Evelyn-White (transl.), Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914 (English only; the facing Greek is not reproduced).
Text layer: Public domain (translator died 1924); text recovered by OCR from the Internet Archive scan. Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.
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