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The "Melampodia" () is a now fragmentary
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epic
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poem that was attributed to
Hesiod
Hesiod ( or ; ''Hēsíodos''; ) was an ancient Greece, Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.M. L. West, ''Hesiod: Theogony'', Oxford University Press (1966), p. 40.Jasper Gr ...
during antiquity. Its title is derived from the name of the great
seer
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Melampus
In Greek mythology, Melampus (; , ''Melampous'') was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer ...
but must have included myths concerning other heroic seers, for it was at least three books long.
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Select editions and translations
Critical editions
* ''Hesiodi, Eumeli, Cinaethonis, Asii et Carminis Naupactii fragmenta'', Guil. Marckscheffel (ed.), Lipsiae, sumtibus Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii, 1840
pp. 359-65
* ''Hesiodi carmina'',
Johann Friedrich Dübner (ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1841
pp. 59-61
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Most, G.W., ''Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments'',
Loeb Classical Library
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, No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University Press
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, 2007, 2018.
Online version at Harvard University Press
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Ancient Greek epic poems
Lost poems
Hesiod
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