Various elements of Hesiod’s poems (cosmogony, theogony, series of proverbial maxims, etc.) originate in Eastern Literature, and this assertion is today accepted by all. The author of this paper thinks that the knowledge of those models could be profitable in order to study how Hesiod has modified and combined them to produce his great poems. He also believes that Hesiod is dependent on Greek poetry inspired on those models and on other ones more properly Greek. But the result of his re-elaboration of the pre-Hesiodic Greek poetry is two poems very new and original regarding their composition and ideas.
In the Catalogue of Womenthe sexual union of the heroines with the gods and heroes is conveyed by various formulaic expressions which allude to a human wedding or to nuptial bed, or by some other expressions which refer to love in different ways. The aim of this article is to examine the use that the poet makes of those formulaic expressions, the alternation between them, and his preferences. Furthermore, this study aims to compare the expressions describing love and sexual union in the fragments referring to the offspring of several mortal women with the last passage of the Theogony –or even with all of the Theogony–, trying to find similarities or differences which might allow us to relate both poems.
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.