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 #92 —­
Scholiast on Pindar, Pyth. ix. 6: 
`Or like her, beautiful Cyrene, who dwelt in Phthia by the water
of Peneus and had the beauty of the Graces.’

Fragment #93 —­
Servius on Vergil, Georg. i. 14: 
He invoked Aristaeus, that is, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom
Hesiod calls `the shepherd Apollo.’ (60)

Fragment #94 —­
Scholiast on Vergil, Georg. iv. 361: 
`But the water stood all round him, bowed into the semblance of a
mountain.’  This verse he has taken over from Hesiod’s “Catalogue
of Women”.

Fragment #95 —­
Scholiast on Homer, Iliad ii. 469: 
`Or like her (Antiope) whom Boeotian Hyria nurtured as a maid.’

Fragment #96 —­
Palaephatus (61), c. 42: 
Of Zethus and Amphion.  Hesiod and some others relate that they
built the walls of Thebes by playing on the lyre.

Fragment #97 —­ Scholiast on Soph.  Trach., 1167:  (ll. 1-11) `There is a land Ellopia with much glebe and rich meadows, and rich in flocks and shambling kine.  There dwell men who have many sheep and many oxen, and they are in number past telling, tribes of mortal men.  And there upon its border is built a city, Dodona (62); and Zeus loved it and (appointed) it to be his oracle, reverenced by men.... ....And they (the doves) lived in the hollow of an oak.  From them men of earth carry away all kinds of prophecy, —­ whosoever fares to that spot and questions the deathless god, and comes bringing gifts with good omens.’

Fragment #98 —­ Berlin Papyri, No. 9777:  (63) (ll. 1-22) `....strife....  Of mortals who would have dared to fight him with the spear and charge against him, save only Heracles, the great-hearted offspring of Alcaeus?  Such an one was (?) strong Meleager loved of Ares, the golden-haired, dear son of Oeneus and Althaea.  From his fierce eyes there shone forth portentous fire:  and once in high Calydon he slew the destroying beast, the fierce wild boar with gleaming tusks.  In war and in dread strife no man of the heroes dared to face him and to approach and fight with him when he appeared in the forefront.  But he was slain by the hands and arrows of Apollo (64), while he was fighting with the Curetes for pleasant Calydon.  And these others (Althaea) bare to Oeneus, Porthaon’s son; horse-taming Pheres, and Agelaus surpassing all others, Toxeus and Clymenus and godlike Periphas, and rich-haired Gorga and wise Deianeira, who was subject in love to mighty Heracles and bare him Hyllus and Glenus and Ctesippus and Odites.  These she bare and in ignorance she did a fearful thing:  when (she had received).... the poisoned robe that held black doom....’

Fragment #99A —­
Scholiast on Homer, Iliad. xxiii. 679: 
And yet Hesiod says that after he had died in Thebes, Argeia the
daughter of Adrastus together with others (cp. frag. 99) came to
the lamentation over Oedipus.

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