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He settled in a miserable village near Helicon,<br>Ascra, vile in winter, painful in summer, never good. |
He settled in a miserable village near Helicon,<br>Ascra, vile in winter, painful in summer, never good. |
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The 4th century BCE astronomer [[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] thought even less of Ascra's climate,<ref>[[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=6608086C6F6B93EB4774A8CCA5723B0C?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D35 9.2.35].</ref> and by the time he wrote the town had been all but destroyed, a loss commemorated a similarly lost [[Hellenistic poetry|Hellenistic]] poem, which opened: "Of Ascra there isn't even a trace anymore" ({{polytonic|Ἄσκρης μὲν οὐκέτ' ἐστὶν οὐδ' ἴχνος}}).<ref>{{Citation| last=West| first=M.L.| authorlink=Martin Litchfield West| title=Four Hellenistic First Lines Restored| journal=Classical Quarterly| year=1979| volume=29| pages=324–6| jstor=638099}}.</ref> This was apparently hyperbole, for in the 2nd century CE [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]' could report that a single tower, though not much else, still stood at the site.<ref>Pausanias [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=6608086C6F6B93EB4774A8CCA5723B0C?doc=Paus.+9.29.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 9.29.2].</ref> |
The 4th century BCE astronomer [[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] thought even less of Ascra's climate,<ref>[[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=6608086C6F6B93EB4774A8CCA5723B0C?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D35 9.2.35].</ref> and by the time he wrote the town had been all but destroyed, a loss commemorated by a similarly lost [[Hellenistic poetry|Hellenistic]] poem, which opened: "Of Ascra there isn't even a trace anymore" ({{polytonic|Ἄσκρης μὲν οὐκέτ' ἐστὶν οὐδ' ἴχνος}}).<ref>{{Citation| last=West| first=M.L.| authorlink=Martin Litchfield West| title=Four Hellenistic First Lines Restored| journal=Classical Quarterly| year=1979| volume=29| pages=324–6| jstor=638099}}.</ref> This was apparently hyperbole, for in the 2nd century CE [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]' could report that a single tower, though not much else, still stood at the site.<ref>Pausanias [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=6608086C6F6B93EB4774A8CCA5723B0C?doc=Paus.+9.29.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 9.29.2].</ref> |
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==Notes== |
==Notes== |
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Ascra (Ancient Greek: Ἄσκρη, Áskrē) was an ancient town in Boeotia which is best known today as the home of the poet Hesiod.[1] It was located upon Mount Helicon, five miles west of Thespiae.[1] According to a lost poetic Atthis by one Hegesinous, a maiden by the name of Ascra lay with Poseidon and bore a son Oeoclus who, together with the Aloadae, founded the town named for his mother.[2] In the Works and Days, Hesiod says that his father was driven from Aeolian Cyme to Ascra by poverty, only to find himself situated in a most unpleasant town (lines 639–40):
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νάσσατο δ' ἄγχ' Ἑλικῶνος ὀιζυρῆι ἐνὶ κώμηι |
He settled in a miserable village near Helicon, |
The 4th century BCE astronomer Eudoxus thought even less of Ascra's climate,[3] and by the time he wrote the town had been all but destroyed, a loss commemorated by a similarly lost Hellenistic poem, which opened: "Of Ascra there isn't even a trace anymore" (Ἄσκρης μὲν οὐκέτ' ἐστὶν οὐδ' ἴχνος).[4] This was apparently hyperbole, for in the 2nd century CE Pausanias' could report that a single tower, though not much else, still stood at the site.[5]
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