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The "Melampodia" ( grc, Μελαμποδία) is a now fragmentary
Greek epic
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* Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
* Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements
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poem that was attributed to
Hesiod
Hesiod (; grc-gre, Ἡσίοδος ''Hēsíodos'') was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded by western authors as 'the first written poet i ...
during antiquity. Its title is derived from the name of the great
seer
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Melampus but must have included myths concerning other heroic seers, for it was at least three books long.
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Select editions and translations
Critical editions
* ''Hesiodi, Eumeli, Cinaethonis, Asii et Carminis Naupactii fragmenta'', Guil. Marckscheffel (ed.), Lipsiae, sumtibus Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii, 1840
pp. 359-65
* ''Hesiodi carmina'',
Johann Friedrich Dübner (ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1841
pp. 59-61
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Most, G.W., ''Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments'',
Loeb Classical Library
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, No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University Press
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, 2007, 2018.
Online version at Harvard University Press
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Ancient Greek epic poems
Lost poems
Hesiod
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