batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l1147-l1374
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l1147-l1374
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
passage_locator:
label: PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY; lines 1147-1374
start: '1147'
end: '1374'
translation: Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage is a bibliography and textual note. It lists manuscript and
papyrus witnesses for Hesiodic works, describes manuscript family classifications,
names editions and scholarship on Hesiod, lists papyri of lost Hesiodic Catalogues,
and comments on the poor textual condition and lacunae of the Homeric Hymns.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The bibliography states that Rzach's 1913 classification and numeration of
Hesiodic manuscripts is followed.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage says recovered Hesiodic papyri generally confirm the authority
of medieval manuscripts while also providing new lines, improved readings, and
fragments of the Catalogues.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage lists papyri and manuscripts for Works and Days, Theogony, and
Shield of Heracles, with manuscript families assigned for each.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:4
text: The passage lists early and modern editions of Hesiod and secondary scholarship
on Hesiodic poems and fragments.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:5
text: The passage lists papyri belonging to lost Hesiodic works and identifies them
as all belonging to the Catalogues.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:6
text: The passage states that the text of the Homeric Hymns is in bad condition,
with many defects and lacunae, and that no papyrus fragment of the Hymns had yet
emerged.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures: []
roles: []
symbols: []
scenes: []
candidate_motifs: []
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1147-1160
quote_or_summary: The passage introduces the Hesiod bibliography by saying Rzach's
classification is followed and that papyri confirm medieval manuscripts while
adding new lines, improved readings, and valuable fragments of the Catalogues.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1161-1203
quote_or_summary: The passage enumerates witnesses for Works and Days and divides
the manuscripts into families from a common original.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1204-1236
quote_or_summary: The passage enumerates witnesses for Theogony and divides the
manuscripts into two families.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1237-1280
quote_or_summary: The passage enumerates witnesses for Shield of Heracles, gives
family groupings, and notes two mixed-family manuscripts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 1281-1329
quote_or_summary: The passage lists editions of Hesiod from early printed editions
through modern editions and names scholarship on Hesiodic poems and fragments.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 1330-1360
quote_or_summary: The passage adds a numbered list of papyri belonging to lost Hesiodic
works and says all are from the Catalogues.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 1361-1374
quote_or_summary: The passage says the Homeric Hymns text is in distinctly bad condition,
has many defects and lacunae, lacks papyrus fragments, and has only a closely
parallel paraphrase related to the Hymn to Demeter.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized rather than quoted.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: high
notes: This line range is bibliographical and textual-critical rather than narrative
or mythic; no passage-level myth motifs, symbols, figures, scenes, or comparison
claims are supported by the supplied text.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No taxonomy motif or symbol references were assigned because the passage does not describe mythic narrative content.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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