Works and Days
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod (Greek: "Ἀγὼν Oμήρου καὶ Ἡσιόδου", Latin: "Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi" or simply Certamen) is a Greek narrative that expands a remark made in Hesiod's "Works and Days" to construct an imagined poetical "agon" between Homer and Hesiod. In "Works and Days", Hesiod (without mentioning Homer) claims he won a poetry contest, receiving as the prize a tripod, which he dedicated to the Muses of Mount Helicon. A tripod, believed to be Hesiod's dedication-offering, was still being shown to tourists visiting Mount Helicon and its sacred grove of the Muses in Pausanias' day, but has since vanished.