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Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

  • α
  • Homer,OdysseyI, V.1-XIII, 92;
  • Hesiod, Works and Days
  • β
  • Homer OdysseyII-IV,XIII.93-XXIV.548 (Aphrodite)
  • Homeric Hymns 2 (Demeter), 5 (Aphrodite)
  • Hesiod, Theogony
  • Fragments of the Epic Cycle (in M.L. West, Greek Epic Fragments (Loeb, 2003), pp.38-171).
  • Candidates will also be expected to be familiar with the Iliad.

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