Publisher's Synopsis
This volume contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent colla-tions of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the several edi-tions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arrangement adopted in this edition, by which the complete and frag-mentary poems are restored to the order in which they would probably have appeared had the Hesiodic corpus survived intact, is unusual, but should not need apology; the true place for the Catalogues (for example), fragmen-tary as they are, is certainly after the Theogony.
