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 Of these editions that of Messrs Allen and Sikes is by far the best: not only is the text purged of the load of conjectures for which the frequent obscurities of the Hymns offer a special opening, but the Introduction and the Notes throughout are of the highest value. For a full discussion of the MSS. and textual problems, reference must be made to this edition, as also to Dr. T. W. Allen's series of articles in the Journal of Hellenic Studies vols, xv ff. Among translations those of J. Edgar (Edinburgh, 1891) and of Andrew Lang (London, 1899) may be mentioned.

The Epic Cycle. The fragments of the Epic Cycle being drawn from a variety of authors, no list of MSS. can be given. The following collections and editions may be mentioned : —

Muller, Leipzig. 1829.

Dindorff (Didot edition of Homer), Paris, 1837-56.

Kinkel (Epicorum (Graecorum Fragmenta i, Leipzig, 1877.

Allen (Homeri Opera v), Oxford, 1912.

The fullest discussion of the problems and fragments of the epic cycle is F. G. Welcker's der epische Cyclus (Bonn, vol. i, 1835: vol. ii, 1849: vol i, 2nd edition, 1865). The Appendix to Monro's Homer's Odyssey xii-xxiv (pp. 340 ff.) deals with the Cylic poets in relation to Homer, and a clear and reasonable discussion of the subject is to be found in Croiset's ''Hist. de la Littérature Grecque'' vol. i.

On Hesiod, the Hesiodic poems and the problems which these offer see Rzach's most important article Hesiodos in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädic xv (1912).

A discussion of the evidence for the date of Hesiod is to be found in ''Journ. Hell. Stud'', xxxv, 85 ff (T. W. Allen).

Of translations of Hesiod the following may be noticed :— The Georgicks of Hesiod, by George Chapman, London, 1618; The Works of Hesiod translated from the Greek, by Thomas Cooke, London, 1728; The Remains of Hesiod translated from the Greek into English Verse, by Charles Abraham Elton; The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis, by the Rev. J. Banks, M. A.; Hesiod, by Prof. James Mair, Oxford, 1908.