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Stars and Constellations in Homer and Hesiod1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

H. L. Lorimer
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Heavenly bodies figure in the works of both Homer and Hesiod, but their functions in the two poems mainly concerned are very different, as accords with the contrasting character of the Iliad and of the Works and Days. For the moment it is enough to note that Hesiod's attention is directed mainly to constellations, Homer's (so to call the poet of the Iliad) to individual stars. The passages which establish the fact are few, but as the precise meaning of some of them is in doubt, it is necessary to begin with an examination of the most important.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 46 , November 1951 , pp. 86 - 101
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1951

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