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17: 769: 165:, for the fragments' contents—the paths of the stars and their significance—betray a similarity to the astronomical advice in that poem that is, in the opinion of one modern scholar, "obvious." 159:. Whether the transmitted fragments can be considered archaic or not, their small number and uninformative context leave open the possibility that they belonged to an expanded version of the 515: 16: 450: 442: 592: 203:
states that no man should be called an astronomer if he, like "Hesiod", simply studied the risings and settings of the stars.
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All these sources do agree on one point: there survives from antiquity no expression of doubt as to whether Hesiod wrote the
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Pseudo-Hesiodeia: recherches sur la composition, la diffusion et la disparition ancienne d'oeuvres attribuées à Hésiode
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parallels that of Greek in that only later did it connote exclusively something resembling modern
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Cingano, E. (2009), "The Hesiodic Corpus", in Montanari; Rengakos; Tsagalis (eds.),
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Hesiodi, Eumeli, Cinaethonis, Asii et Carminis Naupactii fragmenta
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in focus, dealing with the stars. It has been suspected that the
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While it is uncertain whether the work ought to be called the
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during antiquity. As the title of the poem suggests, it was
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Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1990), "Fragmenta selecta", in
768: 697: 649: 115: 234:(ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1841, 206: 650:Montanari, F.; Rengakos, A.; Tsagalis, C. (2009), 332: 134:struck his own course, preferring a periphrasis: 868: 596: 414: 356:Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue, Other Fragments 281:(3rd rev. ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 272: 253: 197:was no ringing endorsement. The author of the 713: 386: 384: 382: 335:Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia 23:(in pink), a constellation described in the 324:. (The link is to the 1st edition of 1914.) 248:(2nd rev. ed.), Leipzig: B.G. Teubneri 720: 706: 379: 635:, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 630: 402: 668: 279:Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum 15: 611: 553: 390: 306:Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 130:. The 12th century AD poet and scholar 89: 869: 302: 701: 241: 193:The earliest likely reference to the 173:Most of the surviving content of the 59:, also "Astronomy") is a fragmentary 678: 565: 353: 327: 211: 258:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 254:Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1967), 13: 14: 898: 507:; cf. C.T. Lewis & C. Short, 472:11.80.491c–d; George Hamartolos, 767: 207:Select editions and translations 605: 575: 296: 559: 547: 522: 479: 460: 420: 408: 396: 177:concerns two star groups: the 1: 188: 66:poem that was attributed to 7: 683:, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 652:Brill's Companion to Hesiod 631:Hopkinson, N., ed. (1988), 614:Brill's Companion to Hesiod 597:Merkelbach & West (1967 534:12.167 and in his notes on 415:Merkelbach & West (1967 10: 903: 727: 616:, Brill, pp. 91–130, 452: 444: 438:, 9th ed. (Oxford, 1940), 168: 136: 126:, on the other hand, give 55: 46: 776: 765: 735: 877:Ancient Greek epic poems 681:Hesiod: Works & Days 373: 78:influenced the style of 633:A Hellenistic Anthology 435:A Greek–English Lexicon 232:Johann Friedrich Dübner 311:Loeb Classical Library 155:following the work of 34: 673:, Leiden: Ε. J. Brill 669:Schwartz, J. (1960), 513:(Oxford, 1879), s.v. 19: 813:Descent of Perithous 90:Title and authorship 679:West, M.L. (1978), 354:Most, G.W. (2007), 49:, "Astronomy") or " 827:Precepts of Chiron 785:Catalogue of Women 758:Shield of Heracles 510:A Latin Dictionary 487:On Pythian Oracles 405:, pp. 136–7). 256:Fragmenta Hesiodea 242:Rzach, A. 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Index


Boötes
Urania's Mirror
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek
hexameter
Hesiod
astronomical
Aratus
Athenaeus
George Hamartolos
AD
Plutarch
Pliny the Elder
Tzetzes
Hellenistic Period
Eudoxus
Works and Days
Pleiades
Hyades
Epinomis
pp. 352-9
Johann Friedrich Dübner
p. 48
Hesiodi Carmina
ISBN
0-19-814171-8
F. Solmsen
ISBN
0-19-814071-1

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