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Every subject that he treats automatically enters the already fixed Homeric pattern’; Wade-Gery () speaking of Hesiod’s ‘profound’ reaction to the Iliad; Sale (); Krafft () et passim mentions Hesiod’s conscious ‘Anklänge’ to the Homeric poems; Verdenius () ‘[Hesiod] was in a position to compare different kinds of poetry, the narrative style of Homer and his own didactic style’; Tsagalis () et passim discussing ‘Homeric echoes’. ) he still claimed that ‘Hesiod (Th.
76 Xenoph. DK B , Plu. Mor. D; others claiming the priority of Homer include Eratosthenes, Aristarchus, Apollodorus (on whom see Graziosi ), Cicero (De Senect. ). See further Allen (). 77 Σ Il. (A); see also Posidonius (fr.
Another interesting observation concerns the place of the peaks: quite a few correspond rather neatly to the ‘joints’ of our modern division of the poem. 42 42 Incidentally, the commemogram of the Th. also ‘peaks’ at such a joint; cf. Hunter () on Th. ’ introduction Fig. . References to the Works and Days in antiquity ( bc– ad) Legend a – Prayer to Zeus and the Muses (–) b – Two Kinds of Eris (–) c – The cause of Ponos (–) d – The Five Races (–) e – The Hawk and the Nightingale (–) f – Justice (–) g – Rules on Work and Life (–) h i j k l m – – – – – – Farming: Times and Tools (–) Plowing, Sowing, Harvesting (–) Seasons and Activities (–) Commerce and Seafaring (–) Marriage and other Advice (–) Good and Bad Days (–) A final word concerns the quantity of the references.