Notes on the Works and Days of Hesiod With Introduction and Appendix, a Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Greek (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Notes on the Works and Days of Hesiod: With Introduction and Appendix, a Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Greek

Th. 22-3 seems to be a reference to Hesiod as the great poet of Helicon by the later author of the Theogony. See Croiset, Lit. Gr. I 450 and 512. Evelyn White renders: And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me: Nowhere in the Works and Days does the author show any particular interest in a shepherd's life or acquaintance with it. The second passage has been so severely criticized in ancient 'and modern times (see note 4 infra) that it seems rash to base a conclusion on it.

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