Editing Flat Earth (section)

=====Poets=====
Both [[Homer]]<ref>''Iliad'', 28. 606.</ref> and [[Hesiod]]<ref>''The Shield of Heracles'', pp. 314–6, transl. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914.</ref> described a disc cosmography on the [[Shield of Achilles]].<ref>''The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis'', Andrew Sprague Becker, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, p. 148.</ref><ref>Professor of Classics (Emeritus) Mark W. Edwards in his ''The Iliad. A Commentary'' (1991, p. 231) has noted of Homer's usage of the flat Earth disc in the ''Iliad'': "Okeanos...surrounds the pictures on the shield and he surrounds the disc of the Earth on which men and women work out their lives." Quoted in ''The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis'', Andrew Sprague Becker, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, p. 148.</ref> This poetic tradition of an Earth-encircling (''gaiaokhos'') sea ([[Oceanus]]) and a disc also appears in [[Stasinus]] of Cyprus,<ref>Stasinus of Cyprus wrote in his Cypria (lost, only preserved in fragment) that Oceanus surrounded the entire Earth: ''deep eddying Oceanus'' and that the Earth was flat with ''furthest bounds'', these quotes are found preserved in Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, VIII. 334B.</ref> [[Mimnermus]],<ref>Mimnermus of Colophon (630BC) details a flat-Earth model, with the sun (Helios) bathing at the edges of Oceanus that surround the Earth (Mimnermus, frg. 11).</ref> [[Aeschylus]],<ref>''Seven against Thebes'', verse 305; ''Prometheus Bound'', 1, 136; 530; 665 (which also describe the 'edges' of the Earth).</ref> and [[Apollonius Rhodius]].<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, in his ''Argonautica'' (3rd century BC) included numerous flat-Earth references (IV. 590 ff): "Now that river, rising from the ends of the Earth, where are the portals and mansions of Nyx (Night), on one side bursts forth upon the beach of Okeanos."</ref>

Homer's description of the disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles with the encircling ocean is repeated far later in [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]]' ''[[Posthomerica]]'' (4th century AD), which continues the narration of the Trojan War.<ref>''Posthomerica'' (V. 14). "Here [on the shield of Achilles] Tethys' all-embracing arms were wrought, and Okeanos fathomless flow. The outrushing flood of Rivers crying to the echoing hills all round, to right, to left, rolled o'er the land."  Translation by Way, A.S. 1913.</ref>