Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Epics of Hesiod: With an English Commentary and the Readings of Fourteen Mss. Collated for This Work
Whatever opinions may be held as to the real dates of the Homeric and the Hesiodic poems, both in their original forms and in the perhaps much altered and interpolated recensions which have come down to us, one fact remains indisputable; they are the only extant Greek writings which have any claim even to approximate to the Epic age, properly so called. Con sequently: their value merely as literature is not the only ground of their fitness and utility for students of Greek; they are not less important in a linguistic point of view, viz. As affording an insight into the peculiarities of the Epic style and dialect, all the more valuable because emanating from distinct centres of the epic art.
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