Open AccessOn the question of priority of Homer and Hesiod
Author(s) -
Odysseus Tsagarakis
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1986.v54.i2.646
Subject(s) - hesiod , literature , philosophy , history , linguistics , art , poetry
Hesiod’s listeners or readers could have better understood his references to the creation of Pandora and to the character of women in general if they had previously known Homer’s poetry. The present argument supports the view that the epics of Homer preceded those of Hesiod