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Hesiod and the Muse (1891), by Gustave Moreau. The poet is presented with a lyre , in contradiction to the account given by Hesiod himself, in which the gift was a laurel staff. Some scholars have seen Perses as a literary creation, a foil for the moralizing that Hesiod develops in Works and Days , but there are also arguments against that ...
Along with the "Wedding of Ceyx" and Aegimus, the "Descent of Perithous" has been considered a poetic narrative by Hesiod that was Muse-inspired. [3] During the expedition, Hades trapped the heroes by seating them in the "chairs of forgetfullness", and only Heracles could save them. [2] The poem is narrated by the ghost of Meleager. [4]
— Hesiod (c. 700 BCE), Theogony (Hugh G. Evelyn-White translation, 2015) Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. —Homer (c. 700 - 600 BCE), in Book I of The Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation, 1996) O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate;
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Moreau largely copied the work of others in Italy, and produced only a few original works there. Examples include some large drawings on the theme of Hesiod and the Muse and a number of fine landscapes in watercolors, painted en plein air. In September 1859 Moreau and his parents returned to Paris with several hundred drawings and paintings.
Tell me, Muse, of the versatile man who was driven off course many times after he had sacked the holy citadel of Troy. [175] Reading, Peter: born 1946, Poet 1994 Lombardo, Stanley: born 1943, American Professor of Classics 2000: Indianapolis, Hackett
Hesiod was victorious; he dedicated the prize, a bronze tripod, to the Muses at Helicon. [12] There is no mention of Homer. In Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi the winning passage that Hesiod selects is the passage from Works and Days that begins, "When the Pleiades arise..." The judge, who is the brother of the late Amphidamas, awards the prize to ...
Rhapsodes notably performed the epics of Homer [1] (Iliad and Odyssey) but also the wisdom and catalogue poetry of Hesiod and the satires of Archilochus and others. Plato 's dialogue Ion , in which Socrates confronts a star player rhapsode, remains the most coherent source of information on these artists.