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Fragments collects surviving verses from the epic poetry ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth, a poet of the Bacchiad family traditionally dated to the eighth century BC. His poems are lost and survive only in quotations by later authors. These short hexameter passages include Helios dividing his lands between Aeetes and Aloeus, praise of the pine-clad Isthmus, a line naming the Muses as daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, and earthborn warriors springing up in the field of Ares.
Eumelus is one of the earliest named Greek poets after Homer and Hesiod, and his fragments preserve Corinthian versions of myths known from the Argonaut story. Along with the separate set numbered after Kinkel, they are the main direct evidence for his verse and a rare glimpse of archaic epic beyond Homer and Hesiod.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: West GEF / Bernabé PEG I, Eumelus frr. 2–19 (numbering probable)). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).