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Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield

Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield

Paperback

Literary CriticismAncient GreeceGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1421443945
ISBN13: 9781421443942
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Aug 2 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.99 Depth: 9.99
Language: English

This best-selling translation of Hesiod's the Theogony, the Works and Days, and the Shield has been updated into the most indispensable edition yet for students of Greek mythology and literature.

Next to the works of Homer, Hesiod's poems are foundational texts for students of the classics. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, address the divine and the mundane, respectively. The Theogony traces the origins of the Greek gods and recounts the events surrounding the crowning of Zeus as their king, while the Works and Days is a manual of moral instruction in verse addressed to farmers and peasants. Though modern scholars dispute the authorship of the Shield, ancient texts treat this final poem about the shield of Herakles as unquestionably Hesiodic.

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