The Contest of Homer and Hesiod

Abstract

The work of many scholars in the last hundred years has helped us to understand the nature and origins of the treatise which we know for short as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. The present state of knowledge may be summed up as follows. The work in its extant form dates from the Antonine period, but much of it was taken over bodily from an earlier source, thought to be the Movaelov of Alcidamas. Some of the verses exchanged in the contest were current even earlier, and some scholars have supposed that the story of a contest went back to the fifth, sixth, or even eighth century; but this is now much doubted.

Herodotus in The Theatre at Alexandria? On Athenaeus 14.620D

“…Cf. West (1967); Koning (2010) 239-68; Hunter (2014) 302-15. 30 The same conclusion in Delcroix and Giannattasio Andria (1997) 138.…”

“…Tosi (1988) 101-03). Merkelbach and West (1967) collected many Hesiodic Finally, Athenaeus 14.620d is included in Glenn W. Most's Loeb edition of Hesiod as a testimony on the life and works of the poet, thus endorsing Meineke's correction of the transmitted text. 14 But neither Most nor Olson in his edition of Athenaeus signals in the apparatus that both manuscript A and the epitome manuscripts C and E have τὰ Ἡροδότου, not τὰ Ἡσιόδου.…”

Reconsiderando O Certamen Homeri Et Hesiodi

“…A questão, contudo, permanece muito debatida: há quem entenda que os elementos do Certamen sejam principalmente da lavra de Alcidamante e, portanto, do século IV AEC(Nietzsche 1873;West 1967); outros pensam que têm origem na Atenas do século V(Graziosi 2002, p. 184; Rosen 2004; Graziosi 2010, pp. 125-30); mas a maior parte dos estudiosos atualmente defende a existência de elementos bastante arcaicos nesse escrito(Pfeiffer 1968, p. 11;Richardson 1981; Lamberton 1988, p. 6; Grottanelli 1992, p. 222;Kivilo 2001; Pinheiro 2005, pp.…”

Negotiating hegemony in early Greek poetry

“…1.3. 7 On the tradition of the Certamen, seeWest 1967;Richardson 1981;Heldmann 1982;Graziosi 2001. On Archilochus and Homer/Hesiod, seeSwift 2019: 18-20, 22-4, 40-3.…”