Hesiod: 19 books

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 before the birth of Christ. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders...

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 and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early...

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 and the mundane, respectively. The Theogony traces the origins of the Greek...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This file contains translations of the following works: Hesiod: “Works and Days”, “The Theogony”, fragments of “The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae”, “The Shield of Heracles” (attributed to Hesiod), and fragments of various works attributed to Hesiod.

The *Theogony *is an 8th-century BCE didactic and instructional poem, credited to the Greek poet Hesiod. The Theogony was, at first, not actually written down, rather, it was part of a rich oral tradition which only achieved written form decades later. The *Theogony *traces the history of the...

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations.  All our books contain a linked table of contents. Hesiod was a Greek poet believed to have lived sometime between the period of 750-650 BC which would be around when Homer was active. Hesiod is often credited...

Along with Homer, Hesiod was one of the Ancient Greeks first epic bards, and one of their best. Hesiod is believed to have lived between 750 and 650 B.C., and along with Homer it was Hesiods work that was the oldest to survive in Ancient Greece. It is still unclear which one of the two great poets came...

3 works of Hesiod Greek poet (7th century BC) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Hesiod . A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The Shield of Heracles Theogony Works and Days

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 philosophy,most notably of Plato, and thereby gave a distinctive shape to all of Western...

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 and Days", Hesiod argues that labor is a fundamental condition of human existence...

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 to life the contents of the poems and notes that explicate complex passages,...

Hesiod ( circa 750 650 B.C. ) was one of Ancient Greeks first epic bards and is considered one of the greatest. Along with Homer, Hesiods works are the oldest to survive from Ancient Greece. Hesiod wrote on a variety of topics such as mythology, economics, farming and others.

Hesiod was one of the first great Greek poets, living during the 8th Century BCE: the same time period as Homer. His two classics are The Theogony and Works and Days. The Theogony is an essential work of its time. It is one of the first examples of a collection of organized, well put-together stories...

Work and Days is a didactic poem of some 800 verses written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts. Scholars have seen this work against a background of agrarian crisis...