18 HESIOD.

Equestrian land. There, Hellas, sleeps thy pride, The wisest bard of bards in wisdom tried." Pausan., ix. 38, 4. The question of Hesiod's literary offspring has been much debated, the ' Works and Days ' alone en- joying an undisputed genuineness. But it does not seem that the ' Theogony ' was impugned before the time of Pausanias,* who records that Hesiod's Heli- conian fellow - citizens recognised only the ' Works and Days.' On the other hand to say nothing of internal evidence in the ' Theogony ' we have the testimony of Herodotus to Hesiod's authorship ; whilst the ancient popular opinion on this subject finds cor- roboration in Plato's direct allusion to a certain passage of the * Theogony' as Hesiod's recognised work. Allud- ing to w. 116-118 of the 'Theogony/ the philosopher writes in the 'Symposium' (178), "As Hesiod says, 1 First Chaos came, and then broad-bosomed Earth, The everlasting seat of all that is, And Love/ In other words, after Chaos, the Earth and Love, these two came into being." Aristophanes, also, in more than one drama, must be considered to refer to the 'Theogony' and the "Works." Furthermore, it is certain that the Alexandrian critics, to whom scepticism in the matter would have opened a con- genial field, never so much as hinted a question con- cerning the age and authorship of the 'Theogony.' Besides these two works, but one other poem has ix. 31, 3.