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The Contest of Homer and Hesiod (Ancient Greek: Ἀγὼν Oμήρου καὶ Ἡσιόδου, Latin: Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi or simply Certamen [1]) is a Greek narrative that expands a remark made in Hesiod's Works and Days [2] to construct an imagined poetical agon between Homer and Hesiod.
Hesiod (/ ˈ h iː s i ə d / HEE-see-əd or / ˈ h ɛ s i ə d / HEH-see-əd; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. [1] [2] Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety.
According to Hesiod, by her lover Tithonus, Eos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion. [54] Memnon, king of Aethiopia , joined the Trojans in the Trojan War and fought against Achilles in battle. Much like Thetis , the mother of Achilles, did before her, Eos asked the smithing god Hephaestus with tears in her eyes to forge an armor for Memnon, and ...
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
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They are preserved in a number of texts, including the Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus), the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymns. [ 1 ] The Epigrams are thought to antedate the Pseudo-Herodotian Life of Homer which was apparently written around the epigrams to create appropriate context.
Reports of an active shooter at the GE Appliance Park in Louisville on Thursday were a false alarm, the Louisville Metro Police Department said in a post to X Thursday.. Shortly before noon ...