The
Contest of Homer and Hesiod (
Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi, or simply
Certamen) is a Greek narrative that expands a remark made in
Hesiod's
Works and Days to recount an imagined poetical
agon between
Homer and Hesiod, in which Hesiod bears away the prize, a bronze
tripod, which he dedicates 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.