Riccardiana 71 (15th cent.).Ĭambridge, Trinity College (Gale MS.), O. Preexistens 11 (12th-13th cent.).įlorence, Bibl. Our chief gains from the papyri are the numerous and excellent fragments of the Catalogues which have been recovered. 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. It is only necessary to add that on the whole the recovery of Hesiodic papyri goes to confirm the authority of the mediaeval MSS.
The classification and numeration of MSS. Martin West’s faithful and pleasing translations are fully annotated his freshly edited texts offer new solutions to a number of textual puzzles.Hesiod. The edition of Lives of Homer contains The Contest of Homer and Hesiod and nine other biographical accounts, translated into English for the first time. The comic poems gathered as Homeric Apocrypha include Margites, The Battle of Frogs and Mice, and, for the first time in English, a fragment of a perhaps earlier poem of the same type called The Battle of the Weasel and the Mice. Among the longest are the hymn To Demeter, which tells the foundational story of the Eleusinian Mysteries and To Hermes, distinctive in being amusing. The Hymns range widely in length: two are over 500 lines long several run only a half dozen lines. Here too is a collection of ancient accounts of the poet’s life.
A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title “Hymns of Homer.” This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymns, fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer’s name in or just after the Classical period (but are not today believed to be by the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey).
Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess-as Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days do. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.
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