The whole tract is, of course, mere romance; its only values are 1) the insight it give into ancient speculations about Homer; 2)a certain amount of definite information about the Cyclic poems;and 3) the epic fragments included in the stichomythia of the "Contest" proper, many of which -- did we possess the clue --would have to be referred to poems of the Epic Cycle.
ENDNOTES:
(1) sc. in Boeotia, Locris and Thessaly: elsewhere the movement was forced and unfruitful.
(2) The extant collection of three poems, "Works and Days", "Theogony", and "Shield of Heracles", which alone have come down to us complete, dates at least from the 4th century A.D.: the title of the Paris Papyrus (Bibl. Nat. Suppl. Gr.
1099) names only these three works.
(3) "Der Dialekt des Hesiodes", p. 464: examples are AENEMI (W.
and D. 683) and AROMENAI (ib. 22).
(4) T.W. Allen suggests that the conjured Delian and Pythian hymns to Apollo ("Homeric Hymns" III) may have suggested this version of the story, the Pythian hymn showing strong continental influence.
(5) She is said to have given birth to the lyrist Stesichorus.
(6) See Kinkel "Epic. Graec. Frag." i. 158 ff.
(7) See "Great Works", frag. 2.
(8) "Hesiodi Fragmenta", pp. 119 f.
(9) Possibly the division of this poem into two books is a division belonging solely to this `developed poem', which may have included in its second part a summary of the Tale of Troy.
(10) Goettling's explanation.
(11) x. 1. 52
(12) Odysseus appears to have been mentioned once only -- and that casually -- in the "Returns".
(13) M.M. Croiset note that the "Aethiopis" and the "Sack" were originally merely parts of one work containing lays (the Amazoneia, Aethiopis, Persis, etc.), just as the "Iliad"contained various lays such as the Diomedeia.
(14) No date is assigned to him, but it seems likely that he was either contemporary or slightly earlier than Lesches.
(15) Cp. Allen and Sikes, "Homeric Hymns" p. xv. In the text Ihave followed the arrangement of these scholars, numbering the Hymns to Dionysus and to Demeter, I and II respectively:
to place "Demeter" after "Hermes", and the Hymn to Dionysus at the end of the collection seems to be merely perverse.
(16) "Greek Melic Poets", p. 165.
(17) This monument was returned to Greece in the 1980's. -- DBK.
(18) Cp. Marckscheffel, "Hesiodi fragmenta", p. 35. The papyrus fragment recovered by Petrie ("Petrie Papyri", ed. Mahaffy, p. 70, No. xxv.) agrees essentially with the extant document, but differs in numerous minor textual points.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
HESIOD. -- The classification and numerations of MSS. here followed is that of Rzach (1913). It is only necessary to add that on the whole the recovery of Hesiodic papyri goes to confirm the authority of the mediaeval MSS. At the same time these fragments have produced much that is interesting and valuable, such as the new lines, "Works and Days" 169 a-d, and the improved readings ib. 278, "Theogony" 91, 93. Our chief gains from papyri are the numerous and excellent fragments of the Catalogues which have been recovered.
"Works and Days": --
SOxyrhynchus Papyri 1090.
AVienna, Rainer Papyri L.P. 21-9 (4th cent.).
BGeneva, Naville Papyri Pap. 94 (6th cent.).
CParis, Bibl. Nat. 2771 (11th cent.).
DFlorence, Laur. xxxi 39 (12th cent.).
EMessina, Univ. Lib. Preexistens 11 (12th-13th cent.).
FRome, Vatican 38 (14th cent.).
GVenice, Marc. ix 6 (14th cent.).
HFlorence, Laur. xxxi 37 (14th cent.).
IFlorence, Laur. xxxii 16 (13th cent.).
KFlorence, Laur. xxxii 2 (14th cent.).
LMilan, Ambros. G 32 sup. (14th cent.).
MFlorence, Bibl. Riccardiana 71 (15th cent.).
NMilan, Ambros. J 15 sup. (15th cent.).
OParis, Bibl. Nat. 2773 (14th cent.).
PCambridge, Trinity College (Gale MS.), O.9.27 (13th-14th cent.).
QRome, Vatican 1332 (14th cent.).
These MSS. are divided by Rzach into the following families, issuing from a common original: --<Omega>a = C<Omega>b = F,G,H
<Psi>a = D
<Psi>b = I,K,L,M
<Phi>a = E
<Phi>b = N,O,P,Q
"Theogony": --
NManchester, Rylands GK. Papyri No. 54 (1st cent. B.C. - 1st cent. A.D.).
OOxyrhynchus Papyri 873 (3rd cent.).
AParis, Bibl. Nat. Suppl. Graec. (papyrus) 1099 (4th-5th cent.).
BLondon, British Museam clix (4th cent.).
RVienna, Rainer Papyri L.P. 21-9 (4th cent.).
CParis, Bibl. Nat. Suppl. Graec. 663 (12th cent.).
DFlorence, Laur. xxxii 16 (13th cent.).
EFlorence, Laur., Conv. suppr. 158 (14th cent.).
FParis, Bibl. Nat. 2833 (15th cent.).
GRome, Vatican 915 (14th cent.).
HParis, Bibl. Nat. 2772 (14th cent.).
IFlorence, Laur. xxxi 32 (15th cent.).
KVenice, Marc. ix 6 (15th cent.).
LParis, Bibl. Nat. 2708 (15th cent.).
These MSS. are divided into two families:
<Omega>a = C,D
<Omega>b = E,F
<Omega>c = G,H,I
<Psi> = K,L
"Shield of Heracles": --
POxyrhynchus Papyri 689 (2nd cent.).
AVienna, Rainer Papyri L.P. 21-29 (4th cent.).
QBerlin Papyri, 9774 (1st cent.).
BParis, Bibl. Nat., Suppl. Graec. 663 (12th cent.).
CParis, Bibl. Nat., Suppl. Graec. 663 (12th cent.).
DMilan, Ambros. C 222 (13th cent.).
EFlorence, Laur. xxxii 16 (13th cent.).
FParis, Bibl. Nat. 2773 (14th cent.).
GParis, Bibl. Nat. 2772 (14th cent.).
HFlorence, Laur. xxxi 32 (15th cent.).
ILondon, British Museaum Harleianus (14th cent.).
KRome, Bibl. Casanat. 356 (14th cent.)LFlorence, Laur. Conv. suppr. 158 (14th cent.).
MParis, Bibl. Nat. 2833 (15th cent.).
These MSS. belong to two families:
<Omega>a = B,C,D,F
<Omega>b = G,H,I
<Psi>a = E
<Psi>b = K,L,M
To these must be added two MSS. of mixed family:
NVenice, Marc. ix 6 (14th cent.).
OParis, Bibl. Nat. 2708 (15th cent.).
Editions of Hesiod: --
Demetrius Chalcondyles, Milan (?) 1493 (?) ("editio princeps", containing, however, only the "Works and Days").
Aldus Manutius (Aldine edition), Venice, 1495 (complete works).
Juntine Editions, 1515 and 1540.
Trincavelli, Venice, 1537 (with scholia).
Of modern editions, the following may be noticed: --Gaisford, Oxford, 1814-1820; Leipzig, 1823 (with scholia: in Poett. Graec. Minn II).
