This volume contains p practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry.
I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions especially that of Rzach (1902). The arrangement adopted in this edition by which the complete and fragmentary poems are restored to the order in which they would probably have appeared had the Hesiodic corpus survived intact is unusual but should not need apology; the true place for the Catalogues (for example) fragmentary as they are is certainly after the Theogony.