batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l210-l249
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l210-l249
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
passage_locator:
label: THE CONTEST OF HOMER AND HESIOD / ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE; lines
210-249
start: '210'
end: '249'
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: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and
pre-academic epic poetry.
summary: The preface describes the contents and editorial basis of the volume, acknowledges
textual sources and scholarly debts, explains the arrangement and selection of
texts, notes limitations on revising the introduction, and is signed by Hugh G.
Evelyn-White at Rampton near Cambridge on Sept. 9, 1914.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The volume is described as containing practically all surviving post-Homeric
and pre-academic epic poetry.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The editor says he mostly formed his own text and used independent manuscript
collations by W.H.D. Rouse for Hesiod, otherwise relying on editions' apparatus
criticus, especially Rzach's 1902 edition.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The edition arranges complete and fragmentary poems in an order intended to
approximate how the Hesiodic corpus would have appeared if it had survived intact.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: For the Homeric Hymns, the editor acknowledges a major debt to Allen and Sikes's
1904 edition and to T.W. Allen's articles in the Journal of Hellenic Studies.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The editor thanks T.W. Allen and the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for
permission to use restorations of specified lines from the Hymn to Demeter printed
in the Oxford Text of 1912.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The editor selected only fragments of the Epic Cycle judged to have distinct
importance or interest, relying mainly on Kinkel's collection and the fifth volume
of the Oxford Homer.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The texts of the Batrachomyomachia and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod are
identified as those of Baumeister and Flach respectively, with divergences noted
where they occur.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The editor states that contemporary circumstances prevented the full revision
of the Introduction that he desired.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The preface is signed by Hugh G. Evelyn-White at Rampton near Cambridge and
dated Sept. 9, 1914.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Hugh G. Evelyn-White
description: Signer of the preface and first-person editor who describes preparing
and arranging the texts.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: W.H.D. Rouse
description: Scholar whose independent collations of several manuscripts were used
for Hesiod.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: T.W. Allen
description: Scholar whose articles are cited as a major debt for the Homeric Hymns
and who is thanked for permission connected with restorations of the Hymn to Demeter.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Delegates of the Clarendon Press
description: Institutional body thanked for permission to use restorations of lines
from the Hymn to Demeter.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: editor and preface signer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage uses first-person editorial statements about forming the text
and is signed by Hugh G. Evelyn-White.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: role:2
label: manuscript collator
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: W.H.D. Rouse is credited with independent collations of several manuscripts
used for Hesiod.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: scholarly source and permission granter
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: T.W. Allen's articles are named as a major debt, and he is thanked for permission
to use restorations.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: permission-granting institution
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Delegates of the Clarendon Press are thanked for permission to use restorations
printed in the Oxford Text of 1912.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
symbols: []
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Editorial preface explaining textual basis
summary: The editor describes the volume's scope, textual method, arrangement, scholarly
dependencies, selection of fragments, sources for specific texts, limits on revising
the introduction, and signs the preface with place and date.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs: []
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 210-213
quote_or_summary: '"This volume contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric
and pre-academic epic poetry."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 214-219
quote_or_summary: The editor states that he mostly formed his own text, used W.H.D.
Rouse's independent collations for Hesiod, and otherwise relied on the apparatus
criticus of several editions, especially Rzach 1902.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 219-225
quote_or_summary: The adopted arrangement restores complete and fragmentary poems
to a probable order for an intact Hesiodic corpus; the Catalogues are said to
belong after the Theogony.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 226-231
quote_or_summary: In preparing the Homeric Hymns, the editor names a heavy debt
to Allen and Sikes's 1904 edition and T.W. Allen's Journal of Hellenic Studies
articles.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 231-235
quote_or_summary: The editor thanks T.W. Allen and the Delegates of the Clarendon
Press for permission to use restorations of Hymn to Demeter lines 387-401 and
462-470 from the 1912 Oxford Text.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 236-239
quote_or_summary: Only selected fragments of the Epic Cycle are included, chosen
for importance or interest and based mostly on Kinkel's collection and the fifth
volume of the Oxford Homer.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 240-243
quote_or_summary: The Batrachomyomachia and Contest of Homer and Hesiod texts are
said to follow Baumeister and Flach respectively, with divergences noted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 244-246
quote_or_summary: The editor says present circumstances prevented the full revision
of the Introduction that he wanted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 247-249
quote_or_summary: '"Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Rampton, NR. Cambridge. Sept. 9th, 1914."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is an editorial preface rather than a mythological narrative.
No supported mythic symbols, candidate motifs, or comparison claims are present
in 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: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Available taxonomy references were not applied because the passage contains editorial matter rather than mythic content.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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