Doubtful Fragments. Hesiod. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. 1922

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. 1922.

Hesiod

Doubtful Fragments


1. “AND then it was Zeus took away sense from the heart of Athamas.”	1

2. “They grind the yellow grain at the mill.”	2

3. “Then first in Delos did I and Homer, singers both, raise our strain—stitching song in new hymns—Phoebus Apollo with the golden sword, whom Leto bare.”	3

4. “But starvation on a handful is a cruel thing.”	4

5. Hesiod says that these Hesperides…, daughters of Night, guarded the golden apples beyond Ocean.	5
“Aegle and Erythea and ox-eyed Hesperethusa.”	6

6. “Gifts move the gods, gifts move worshipful princes.”	7

7. “On the seventh day again the bright light of the sun….”	8

8. “He brought pure water and mixed it with Ocean’s streams.”	9

9. “Aspledon and Clymenus and god-like Amphidocus.” (sons of Orchomenus).	10

10. “Telemon never sated with battle first brought light to our comrades by slaying blameless Melanippe, destroyer of men, own sister of the golden-girdled queen.”	11