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Colonel Mure (hist. Gr. Lit. Vol. 11. P. 418 seqq.) inclines to the Opinion, though not very decidedly, that Pausanias' statement is correct; and yet, he Observes, there appears to be no trace of scepticism as to the authorship of the Theogony either among the Alexandrian grammarians, or their predecessors of the early Attic school. Of the authorship, integrity, and great antiquity of the Works, he entertains no doubt; the Theogony he thinks is, in the main, equally ancient, but that it was really written by a poet not even a Boeotian by birth (ii. P. -the problem, in truth, cannot be solved; and it is impossible, within the limits of a preface, to enter into all the arguments fully.
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- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1332765009
- ISBN 13 9781332765003
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages398
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