Excerpt from The Epics of Hesiod: With an English Commentary 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.