Note 186 — Chapter III · THE CONTEST BETWEEN HOMER AND HESIOD—HOMER’S DEATH

The passage, attributed by Euthydemus (in his Treatise on Pickled Fish) to Hesiod, which mentions seven fish, does not upset my statement, because the paternity of the work has long been deemed spurious. Even Athenæus brands the verses as “the work of some cook, rather than that of the great accomplished Hesiod,” and concludes from intrinsic evidence, such as the mention of Byzantium, etc., and the Campanians, etc., “when Hesiod was many years more ancient than any of these places or tribes,” that they were written by Euthydemus. See Athen., III. 84.