Complex sentence: He wrote poems, one hexameter called "Hermes" illustrating the god's life history and another, an elegiac called "Eigone", describing the suicide of the Athenian maiden Erigone (daughter of Icarius).
Split into simpler sentences: He wrote poems, one hexameter called "Hermes" illustrated the god's life history. Another an elegiac, "Eigone", versed the suicide of the Athenian maiden Erigone (daughter of Icarius).