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 #42 —­
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. ii. 297: 
Hesiod also says that those with Zetes (34) turned and prayed to
Zeus:  `There they prayed to the lord of Aenos who reigns on
high.’

Apollonius indeed says it was Iris who made Zetes and his following turn away, but Hesiod says Hermes.

Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. ii. 296:  Others say (the islands) were called Strophades, because they turned there and prayed Zeus to seize the Harpies.  But according to Hesiod... they were not killed.

Fragment #43 —­
Philodemus (35), On Piety, 10: 
Nor let anyone mock at Hesiod who mentions.... or even the
Troglodytes and the Pygmies.

Fragment #44 —­
Strabo, i. p. 43: 
No one would accuse Hesiod of ignorance though he speaks of the
Half-dog people and the Great-Headed people and the Pygmies.

Fragment #45 —­
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 284: 
But Hesiod says they (the Argonauts) had sailed in through the
Phasis.

Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 259:  But Hesiod (says).... they came through the Ocean to Libya, and so, carrying the Argo, reached our sea.

Fragment #46 —­
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iii. 311: 
Apollonius, following Hesiod, says that Circe came to the island
over against Tyrrhenia on the chariot of the Sun.  And he called
it Hesperian, because it lies toward the west.

Fragment #47 —­
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 892: 
He (Apollonius) followed Hesiod who thus names the island of the
Sirens:  `To the island Anthemoessa (Flowery) which the son of
Cronos gave them.’

And their names are Thelxiope or Thelxinoe, Molpe and Aglaophonus (36).

Scholiast on Homer, Od. xii. 168: 
Hence Hesiod said that they charmed even the winds.

Fragment #48 —­
Scholiast on Homer, Od. i. 85: 
Hesiod says that Ogygia is within towards the west, but Ogygia
lies over against Crete:  `...the Ogygian sea and... ...the island
Ogygia.’

Fragment #49 —­
Scholiast on Homer, Od. vii. 54: 
Hesiod regarded Arete as the sister of Alcinous.

Fragment #50 —­
Scholiast on Pindar, Ol. x. 46: 
Her Hippostratus (did wed), a scion of Ares, the splendid son of
Phyetes, of the line of Amarynces, leader of the Epeians.

Fragment #51 —­
Apollodorus, i. 8.4.1: 
When Althea was dead, Oeneus married Periboea, the daughter of
Hipponous.  Hesiod says that she was seduced by Hippostratus the
son of Amarynces and that her father Hipponous sent her from
Olenus in Achaea to Oeneus because he was far away from Hellas,
bidding him kill her.

`She used to dwell on the cliff of Olenus by the banks of wide Peirus.’

Fragment #52 —­
Diodorus (37) v. 81: 
Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says...
and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now
Achaean.

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