Euboea
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| - | + | '''Euboea''' or '''Evia''' is the second-largest [[List of islands of Greece|Greek island]] in area and population, after [[Crete]]. | |
| - | The '''''Contest of Homer and Hesiod''''' ('''''Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi''''', or simply '''''Certamen''''') is a Greek narrative that expands a remark made in [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Works and Days]]'' to recount an imagined poetical ''[[agon]]'' between [[Homer]] and Hesiod, in which Hesiod bears away the prize, a bronze [[tripod]], which he dedicates to the [[Muses]] of [[Mount Helicon]]. A tripod, believed to be Hesiod's dedication-offering, was still being shown to tourists visiting Mount Helicon and its [[sacred grove]] of the Muses in [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]' day, but has since vanished. | + | |
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| - | The site of the contest is set in [[Chalcis]] in [[Euboea]]. Hesiod tells (''Works and Days'' 650–59) that the only time he took passage in a ship was when he went from [[Aulis]] to Chalcis, to take part in the [[game|funeral games]] for [[Amphidamas]], a noble of Chalcis. Hesiod was victorious; he dedicated the prize bronze tripod to the Muses at Helicon. There is no mention of Homer. | + | |
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| - | In ''Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi'' the winning passage that Hesiod selects is the passage from ''Works and Days'' that begins "When the [[Pleiades]] arise..." The judge, who is the brother of the late Amphidamas, awards the prize to Hesiod. The relative value of Homer and Hesiod is established in the poem by the relative value of their subject matter to the ''[[polis]]'', the community: Hesiod's work on agriculture and peace is pronounced of more value than Homer's tales of war and slaughter. | + | |
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Euboea or Evia is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete.
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