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<p>The <b><i>Contest of Homer and Hesiod</i></b> (,  or simply <b><i>Certamen</i></b>) is a Greek <a href="page.php?w=narrative">narrative</a> that expands a remark made in <a href="page.php?w=Hesiod">Hesiod</a>'s <a href="page.php?w=Works_and_Days">Works and Days</a> to construct an imagined poetical <a href="page.php?w=agon">agon</a> between <a href="page.php?w=Homer">Homer</a> and Hesiod. In Works and Days, Hesiod (without mentioning Homer) claims he won a poetry contest, receiving as the prize a <a href="page.php?w=sacrificial_tripod">tripod</a>,</p><p>
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