Modern Edition
The modern edition of the Greek text is in volume 5 of T.W. Allen's Oxford Classical Text of Homer (1912). The brief text is embedded in the briefest of sketches of the poets' lives, their parentage and birth, and the contest itself. It consists of challenges and riddles that Hesiod poses, to which Homer improvises masterfully, to the applause of the on-lookers, followed by their recitation of what they considered their best passage and the awarding of the tripod to Hesiod; this takes up about half the text and is followed by accounts of the circumstances of their deaths.
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