{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg061.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg061.local002","title":"Διάλογος πρὸς Ἡσίοδον","titleGreek":"Διάλογος πρὸς Ἡσίοδον","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian of Samosata","authorityName":"LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","editors":["Kenneth Kilburn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Lucian with an English Translation","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1959","volume":"6","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Gregory Crane","Lisa Cerrato"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/luciankilb06luciuoft/page/229/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian Of Samosata. Διάλογος πρὸς Ἡσίοδον. ed. Kenneth Kilburn. Lucian with an English Translation, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1959. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg061.local002","excerpt":"ΛΥΚΙΝΟΣ Ἀλλὰ ποιητὴν μὲν ἄριστον εἶναί σε, ὦ Ἡσίοδε, καὶ τοῦτο παρὰ Μουσῶν λαβεῖν μετὰ τῆς δάφνης αὐτός τε δεικνύεις ἐν οἷς ποιεῖς—ἔνθεα γὰρ καὶ σεμνὰ πάντα—καὶ ἡμεῖς πιστεύομεν οὕτως ἔχειν. ἐκεῖνο δὲ ἀπορῆσαι ἄξιον, τί δήποτε προειπὼν ὑπὲρ σαυτοῦ ὡς διὰ τοῦτο λάβοις τὴν θεσπέσιον ἐκείνην ᾠδὴν παρὰ τῶν θεῶν ὅπως κλείοις καὶ ὑμνοίης τὰ παρεληλυθότα καὶ θεσπίζοις τὰ ἐσόμενα, θάτερον μὲν καὶ πάνυ ἐντελῶς ἐξενήνοχας θεῶν τε γενέσεις διηγούμενος ἄχρι καὶ τῶν πρώτων ἐκείνων, χάους καὶ γῆς καὶ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἔρωτος—ἔτι δὲ γυναικῶν ἀρετὰς καὶ παραινέσεις γεωργικάς, καὶ ὅσα περὶ Πλειάδων καὶ ὅσα περὶ καιρῶν ἀρότου καὶ ἀμήτου καὶ πλοῦ καὶ ὅλως τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων· θάτερον δὲ καὶ ὃ χρησιμώτερον ἦν τῷ βίῳ παρὰ πολὺ καὶ θεῶν δωρεαῖς μᾶλλον ἐοικός—λέγω δὲ τὴν τῶν μελλόντων προαγόρευσιν—, οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐξαπέφηνας, ἀλλὰ τὸ μέρος τοῦτο πᾶν λήθῃ παραδέδωκας οὐδαμοῦ τῆς ποιήσεως ἢ τὸν Κάλχαντα ἢ τὸν Τήλεμον…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/7-7/"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/8-8/"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/9-9/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg061.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg061/local002.json.gz"}}