Homer · 8th century BC (traditional)
Homerica
ὉμηρικάHomerica is the Loeb name for the minor works that antiquity ascribed to Homer. This edition gives the Epigrams, the testimonies for lost epics such as the Expedition of Amphiaraus and the Taking of Oechalia, what survives of the comic poems Margites and Cercopes, the mock-epic Battle of the Frogs and Mice, and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, a late account of the poets' lives. References give the piece (1 Epigrams, 2 lost epics, 3 Margites, 4 Cercopes, 5 Frogs and Mice, 6 Contest) and the paragraph of the translation.
Contents · 9 passages
- 1.1–17Epigrams1073 words
- 2.1–4.2Lost epics, Margites and Cercopes564 words
- 5.1–12Frogs and Mice: the Mouse drowned1366 words
- 5.13–22Frogs and Mice: the Frogs arm and the gods hold back708 words
- 5.23–28Frogs and Mice: the battle1075 words
- 6.1–7Contest of Homer and Hesiod: origins775 words
- 6.8–62Contest of Homer and Hesiod: the questions951 words
- 6.63–72Contest of Homer and Hesiod: the prize772 words
- 6.73–85Contest of Homer and Hesiod: Homer's wanderings and death860 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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