Note 184 — Chapter III · THE CONTEST BETWEEN HOMER AND HESIOD—HOMER’S DEATH
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“It is difficult to understand how the author could derive from Works and Days a reputation like that enjoyed by Hesiod, especially if we remember that at Thespiæ, to which the village of Ascra, the birthplace and early home of Hesiod, was subject, agriculture was held degrading to a freeman” (Smith, Dict. Gk.-Rom. Biog. and Myth., s. v. “Hesiod”).