Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
- Langue:
- anglais
- Traduction:
- Hugh G. Evelyn-White
- État:
- Volume ; étendue en cours de vérification
- Paternité:
- Responsabilités textuelles multiples
- État du texte:
- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
- Étendue:
- ~100 000 mots · 479 passages
Composite volume: Works and Days, Theogony, attributed Hesiodic fragments and other epic poems. The digital source supplies only the English portion and omits some notes. Not every work or paratext is by Hesiod.
- Hugh G. Evelyn-White — translator, editor, introduction, notes
- DBK (digital preparer) — digital preparation, additional notes
Citer cette œuvre
- APAHésiode. (n.d.). Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/hesiod/theogony-and-works-and-days
- MLAHésiode. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/hesiod/theogony-and-works-and-days.
- ChicagoHésiode. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/hesiod/theogony-and-works-and-days.
Référence de l’édition reproduite. SigPhi est la reproduction numérique. Année, éditeur et traducteur sont indiqués lorsqu’ils sont connus ; « n.d. » signale une année inconnue.
De quoi il s'agit
Composite volume: Works and Days, Theogony, attributed Hesiodic fragments and other epic poems. The digital source supplies only the English portion and omits some notes. Not every work or paratext is by Hesiod.
Contexte et histoire
English portion of a composite volume, including complete poems and attributed fragments. Introductions and notes by Evelyn-White and the digital preparer are separate textual responsibilities. Greek texts and some textual notes are omitted by this digital source; complete coverage of the stored volume has not been collated.
Cette notice n'est pas encore traduite : le texte ci-dessus est l'original anglais.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
The early Greek epic—that is, poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary form—passed through the usual three phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline. No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down to us. So reconstructed, the earliest period appears to us as a time of slow development in which the characteristic epic metre, diction, and structure grew up slowly from crude elements and were improved until the verge of maturity was reached. …