Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2)

by John Addington Symonds

FOOTNOTES:

[36] Works and Days, 219, 261, 637.

[37] There are probably few scholars who would now venture to maintain confidently that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed by one and the same poet. The name Homer must be used like the x of algebra for an unknown power.

[38] Line 225.

[39] Line 535.

[40] That Prometheus was Pramanthas, the fire-lighting stick, has been ascertained by modern philology, but was not known by Hesiod.

[41] Works and Days, 286.

[42] Works and Days, 686. It must here again be repeated that though it is convenient to talk of Hesiod as a poet and a person, the miscellaneous ethical precepts of the Works and Days are derived from a variety of sources.

[43] Lines 587-612.