Hoi tēs hēroikes poiēseōs proteuontes poiētae, kai alloi tines. Homēros, Hēsiodos, Orpheus, Kallimachos, Aratos, Nikandros, Theokritos, Moschos, Biōn, Dionysios, Kolouthos, Tryphiodōros, Mousaios, Theognis, Phōkylidēs, Pythagorou chrysa epē = Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli. Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus, Callim. Aratus, Nicand. Theocrit., Moschus, Bion, Dionysius, Coluthus, Tryphiodorus, Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagorae aurea carmina. Fragmenta aliorum / Henrici Stephani tetrastichon de hac sua editione.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Homer.

Hesiod

Callimachus.

Aratus, Solensis

Nicander, of Colophon

Theocritus.

Moschus.

Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna

Colluthus, of Lycopolis

Tryphiodorus.

Musaeus, Grammaticus

Theognis.

Phocylides, active 544 B.C.-541 B.C.

Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.

Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598, printer.

Fugger, Ulricus, 1526-1584, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--Early works to 1800.

Greek poetry.

Epic poetry, Greek--Early works to 1800.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Genre:

Epic poetry, Greek.

Physical Description:

20, LXXII, 410 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 411-781 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, LVII, that is, LVI, 489, that is, 494 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 38 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli

Hoi tēs hēroikes poiēseōs proteuontes poiētae, kai alloi tines

Fingerprint:

gor- 4,e- usr, gido (3) 1566 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Geneva] : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, anno MDLXVI [1566]

Notes:

Henri Estienne's prefatory epistle and some of his commentary in Latin.

Poets' names printed in three columns on title-page.

Variant recorded with p. 490 as last numbered page. Work here has p. 489 as last numbered page.

Printer's device with motto "Non solus" on title page identified as Renouard 298.

Place of publication supplied from Adams.

First twenty seven words of title in Greek characters, transliterated.

Date of publication appears before printer statement on title page.

Parallel title and preliminaries in Latin; text in Greek only.

Caption titles "Hērodotou Halikarnassēos Exēgesis peri tēs Homērou genesios kai biotēs", "Hypothesis tēs alpha rhapsodias tēs Homērou Iliados", "P.I. Henrici Stephani Annot. in libellos Herodoti, Plutarchi, Porphyrii, de Homero scriptos, & à se illius editioni praefixos" and "Hēsiodou tou Askraiou Erga kai hēmerai" each begin new pagination and register; Adams regards the last two as forming a second volume.

"Homerou Odysseia" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf Aa1r and begins new register; pagination continuous.

"The first part is devoted to the Homeric poems; by collating 18 previous printed editions and a vetustissimum exemplar, Henri Estienne succeeded in establishing a critical text of Homer which remained standard until the 19th century; ... The second part contains improved texts of Hesiod, Orpheus (i.e. the Orphica), Callimachus, Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Aratus, Nicander, Dionysius Periegetes, Coluthus, Triphiodorus, Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, the Golden sayings of Pythagoras; also included is the editio princeps of the fragments of several early Greek poets: e.g. Solon, Tyrtaeus, Mimnernus." Cf. Schrieber.

Poems of Simmias of Rhodes on p. 282-286 (second count) printed in shapes of leaves, arrow-head, double axe, etc.

Signatures: *⁶ 2*⁴ A-D⁸ E⁴ a-2b⁸ 2c⁶ Aa¹⁰ Bb-Yy⁸ Zz⁶ Zzz⁴, ²a-²g⁴, 2A-3R⁶ 3S-3T⁴ .

Leaves 2c6, Zzz4 and 3T4 blank.

Leaves Aa2-5 signed Aa1-4.

Page LV in second sequence of Roman numerals omitted in pagination; also with p. 57-58, 236, and 282-283 duplicated in pagination; numerous other errors in pagination not affecting final count.

Woodcut initials, marginal notes.

Edited by Henri Estienne -- cf. his "Tetrastichon de hac sua editione" on title page.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy wanting blank leaves Zzz4 and 3T4.

Cited in:

Adams P1699

Schrieber, F. Estiennes, 160

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, III, p. 233-235

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p. 126

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, IV, col. 757

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, E389

Contains:

Golden verses.

OCLC:

49763460