Hesiod tells ("Works and Days" lines 650–662) that the only time he took passage in a ship was when he went from Aulis to Chalcis, to take part in the funeral games for Amphidamas, a noble of Chalcis. Hesiod was victorious; he dedicated the prize, a bronze tripod, to the Muses at Helicon. There is no mention of Homer. In "Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi" the winning passage that Hesiod selects is the passage from "Works and Days" that begins, "When the Pleiades arise..." The judge, who is the brother of the late Amphidamas, awards the prize to Hesiod. The relative value of Homer and Hesiod is established in the poem by the relative value of their subject matter to the "polis", the community: Hesiod's work on agriculture and peace is pronounced of more value than Homer's tales of war and slaughter. The work also preserves 17 epigrams attributed to Homer. Three of these epigrams (epigrams III, XIII and XVII) are also preserved in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod and epigram I is found in a few manuscripts of the Homeric Hymns. The short text begins with brief sketches of the poets' lives, including their parentage and birth. It then describes the contest itself, which consists of challenges and riddles that Hesiod poses, to which Homer improvises masterfully, to the applause of the on-lookers, followed by their recitation of what they considered their best passage and the awarding of the tripod to Hesiod; this takes up about half the text and is followed by accounts of the circumstances of their deaths. One modern edition of the Greek text is in volume 5 of T.W. Allen's "Oxford Classical Text of Homer" (1912). An edition with Greek text and English translation (on facing pages) by Hugh Evelyn-White was published in 1914 as part of the Loeb Classical Library volume titled "Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica," and is now in the public domain and available online.