Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 327 pages of information about Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 327 pages of information about Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica.

Fragment #6 —­
Scholiast on Pindar, Nem. vi. 85: 
`About the spear-shaft was a hoop of flashing gold, and a point
was fitted to it at either end.’

Fragment #7 —­ Scholiast on Euripides Troades, 822:  `...the vine which the son of Cronos gave him as a recompense for his son.  It bloomed richly with soft leaves of gold and grape clusters; Hephaestus wrought it and gave it to his father Zeus:  and he bestowed it on Laomedon as a price for Ganymedes.’

Fragment #8 —­
Pausanias, iii. 26. 9: 
The writer of the epic “Little Iliad” says that Machaon was
killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus.

Fragment #9 —­
Homer, Odyssey iv. 247 and Scholiast: 
`He disguised himself, and made himself like another person, a
beggar, the like of whom was not by the ships of the Achaeans.’

The Cyclic poet uses `beggar’ as a substantive, and so means to say that when Odysseus had changed his clothes and put on rags, there was no one so good for nothing at the ships as Odysseus.

Fragment #10 —­ (2)
Plutarch, Moralia, p. 153 F: 
And Homer put forward the following verses as Lesches gives them: 
`Muse, tell me of those things which neither happened before nor
shall be hereafter.’

And Hesiod answered: 

`But when horses with rattling hoofs wreck chariots, striving for victory about the tomb of Zeus.’

And it is said that, because this reply was specially admired,
Hesiod won the tripod (at the funeral games of Amphidamas).

Fragment #11 —­
Scholiast on Lycophr., 344: 
Sinon, as it had been arranged with him, secretly showed a
signal-light to the Hellenes.  Thus Lesches writes:  —­ `It was
midnight, and the clear moon was rising.’

Fragment #12 —­
Pausanias, x. 25. 5: 
Meges is represented (3) wounded in the arm just as Lescheos the
son of Aeschylinus of Pyrrha describes in his “Sack of Ilium”
where it is said that he was wounded in the battle which the
Trojans fought in the night by Admetus, son of Augeias. 
Lycomedes too is in the picture with a wound in the wrist, and
Lescheos says he was so wounded by Agenor...

Pausanias, x. 26. 4: 
Lescheos also mentions Astynous, and here he is, fallen on one
knee, while Neoptolemus strikes him with his sword...

Pausanias, x. 26. 8:  The same writer says that Helicaon was wounded in the night-battle, but was recognised by Odysseus and by him conducted alive out of the fight...

Pausanias, x. 27. 1:  Of them (4), Lescheos says that Eion was killed by Neoptolemus, and Admetus by Philoctetes...  He also says that Priam was not killed at the heart of Zeus Herceius, but was dragged away from the altar and destroyed off hand by Neoptolemus at the doors of the house...  Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam and was slain by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon.  Agenor —­ according to the same poet —­ was butchered by Neoptolemus.

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