Paulys Real-Encyclopddie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1894. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edition (Oxford, 1996) Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zurich and Munich, 19811999) Hansen, Cartnina Fpigraphica Graeca (Berlin and New York, 1983-1989)Ĭlassical Quarterly Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Berlin and Leiden, 1923-1958)Ĭarolus et Theodorus Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (Paris, 1841- 1873) Hayduck and others, Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (Berlin, 1882-1909) Nikolaos Gonis for bringing to my attention an unpublished Oxyrhynchus papyrus containing parts of two of the Homeric Hymns. In places I have made minor orthographical changes without signalling the fact. PREFACE to the significant textual uncertainties.

I have nevertheless tried to ensure that the reader is alerted IX The nature of the Loeb series precludes the provision of the fullest philological detail about variant readings or scholars’ conjectures. I have edited and arranged the texts according to my own judgment, but relied on existing editions for informa¬ tion about manuscript readings. The so-called Homeric Epigrams, which EvelynWhite printed on their own, are here given in the con¬ texts in which they are preserved, dispersed through the pseudo-Herodotean Life. To accompany the Contest of Homer and Hesiod I have gathered in the whole collection of ancient Lives of Homer. Besides the Battle of Frogs and Mice I have included a fragment of a perhaps earher poem of the same type, a Battle of the Weasel and the Mice. The present one contains the Hymns and the other Homerica. This material is now being distributed across three new volumes, each of which will contain a consider¬ able amount of extra matter. EvelynWhite, which originally appeared in 1914, the poems and fragments of Hesiod were coupled with the Homeric Hymns and Epigrams, the remains of the Epic Cycle and of other poems associated with Homer’s name (including the Battle of Frogs and Mice), and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. In the old Loeb Classical Library edition by H.

Homeric hymn to artemis