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Excerpt from The Works of the British Poets, Vol. 41: Including the Most Esteemed Translations From the Greek and Roman Authors; Containing Cooke's Version of Hesiod, Meen's Coluthus, and Eupolis' Hymn to the Creator Translated by C. Wesley
The lives of few persons are confounded with so many uncertainties and fabulous relations as those of Hesiod and Homer: for which reason, what may possibly be true is sometimes as much disputed as the romantic part of their stories. The first has been more fortunate than the other, in furnishing us from his writings, with some circumstances of himself and family; as the con dition of his father, the place of his birth, and the extent of his travels: and he has put it out of dispute, though he has not fixed the period, that he was one of the earliest writers of whom we have any account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
