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Devotees of Orpheus and Musaeus were probably responsible for precedence being given to their two cult heroes and maybe the Homeridae were responsible in later antiquity for promoting Homer at Hesiod's expense. The first known writers to locate Homer earlier than Hesiod were Xenophanes and Heraclides Ponticus, though Aristarchus of Samothrace ...
The Catalogue of Women (Ancient Greek: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος, romanized: Gunaikôn Katálogos)—also known as the Ehoiai (Ancient Greek: Ἠοῖαι, romanized: Ēoîai, Ancient: [ɛː.ôi̯.ai̯]) [a] —is a fragmentary Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The "women" of the title were in fact ...
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.
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 ...
Hesiod says she was "a child unlooked for," [22] and Homer writes she was Helen's first and only child. [23] Different sources say she was also the mother of one or more sons, named Aethiolas, Nicostratus, Megapenthes and Pleisthenes. Still, according to others, these were instead illegitimate children of Menelaus and various lovers. [24] [25]
According to Ephorus, both Homer and Hesiod were descended from three brothers of Cumae, named Apelles, Maeon, and Dius. To escape his debts, Dius traveled to Ascra in Boeotia, where he married Pycimedes, and fathered Hesiod. When Apelles died, he named his brother Maeon guardian of his daughter, Critheïs.
The "Types of Women" shows the clear influence of Hesiod, who tells the story of the creation of the first woman both in the Theogony and the Works and Days. [13] Semonides apparently refers to Hesiod's work in other fragments, and so the poems were probably known to him. [10]
As well as Sappho, Nossis also references Homer and Hesiod, and perhaps Alcaeus and Anacreon; [24] she may have also been influenced by Erinna and Anyte. [25] Meleager of Gadara describes Nossis as a love poet in his Garland , though only one of her surviving epigrams is about love.