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Politics & Social Sciences
This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and background of the epic, and the mythological context in which it is placed... See More
The Iliad and the Odyssey, along with the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman... See More
Classics
Greek poet Hesiod took many lines of thought and knowledge - myth, fable, personal experience, practical understanding - and wove them into one great whole. He did as much with the origins of the Greek gods in the Theogony... See More
History
Composed around the same time as Homer, Hesiod's works helped establish Greek religious customs throughout antiquity, providing a major source on mythology and a fascinating window into the life of the ordinary man 700 years... See More
Poetry
Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod... See More
Poetry
Hesiod is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. To these days three works have survived which were... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, and the lives and activities of deities, heroes... See More
History
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, and the lives and activities of deities, heroes... See More
Poetry
This is a collection of ancient Greek literature, including works by Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. It provides readers with an in-depth exploration of the Boeotian and Ionic Schools, the Trojan Cycle, and the... See More
Mythology & Folk Tales
The literary texts of the ancient Mediterranean present a fairly clear picture of an underworld and bear witness to the changes in its nature and purpose. The strong stamp of Hesiod and Homer defines the geography and... See More
First collected and published in the year 1914; 'Hesiod; the Homeric Hymns; and Homerica' is a collection of translated ancient Greek writings that are attributed to Hesiod; Homer; and others whose style emulates the two... See More
"This is by far the best rendering of Hesiod's poems in print. The translation is fully accurate but so readable one doesn't want to stop; it exactly captures Hesiod's rustic wisdom, his humour and his cautious pessimism... See More
Literary Criticism
In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring... See More
Literature & Fiction
Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization between the oral tradition and the introduction of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, address the divine... See More
Literature & Fiction
Ancient Greek literature has a profound impact on western literature at large. In particular, many ancient Roman authors drew inspiration from their Greek predecessors. Ever since the Renaissance, European authors in... See More
Anthologies
e-artnow presents you the greatest works of ancient Greek literature. The selection of books is based on Yale Department of Classics required reading list. Originally designed for students, this exceptional collection will... See More
NonfictionFirst Greece, then Rome, the Greeks were not the only people to produce myths. The Romans also had a rich mythology of their own and, while much of it was derived from their neighbors, the Greeks, it still defined the rich... See More
Poetry
Philosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod's two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet's essential meditative insights that paved the way for the subsequent achievements of Greek... See More
Greek poet Hesiod, who lived sometime during the 8th and 7th century B.C., is regarded as one the most important poets of classical antiquity. What little is known of him largely comes from his own epic poetry, in which he... See More
Poetry
'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the Year A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the... See More
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps... See More
Fantasy
Contained in this volume are the three best-known works of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. Hesiod's "The Theogony" concerns the origins of the world and of the gods and forms a foundation for all Greek mythology. In "Works... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
"Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica" is a collection of ancient Greek writings that are attributed to Hesiod, Homer, and others whose style emulates the two. This volume translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White includes the... See More
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Literature & Fiction
Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. See More
History
Four of the greatest representative texts on the myth and legend of Hercules: the tragic Heracles of Euripedes, Hesiod's epic Shield of Heracles, selections from the Library of Apollodorus on the labours of Hercules, and... See More
Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual... See More
Literature & Fiction
Hesiod's Theogonia, Erga kai Hemerai and Pseudo-Hesiod's Aspis in a triple interlinear format, with the original Greek, a literal Latin, and a literal English translation. The Theogony sets out Hesiod's catalogue of the... See More
History
The "Theogony" is essentially a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods and the universe, organized as a narrative that tells about the creation of the world out of Chaos and... See More