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The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles

Richmond Lattimore

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Three epic poems by Hesiod, the 'other' great epic poet of ancient Greece .

Constituting some of the earliest known works of literature in European history, the poems of Hesiod describe the creation of the cosmos, the history of the gods, the life & concerns of a simple shepherd in rural Greece, and agricultural knowledge and techniques, and all, as scholar Robert Lamberton wrote, in a voice that is "idiosyncratic, ironic, self-conscious…appropriating proverbial wisdom…and transforming it into a discourse that is as much an account of poetry as it is an account of the world." [Robert Lamberton, Hesiod, Yale Univ. Press]

Language: English

Pages: 241

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Release: June 01, 1959

ISBN: 0472439030

ISBN 13: 9780472439034

The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles

Richmond Lattimore

4/5 ( ratings)

Three epic poems by Hesiod, the 'other' great epic poet of ancient Greece .

Constituting some of the earliest known works of literature in European history, the poems of Hesiod describe the creation of the cosmos, the history of the gods, the life & concerns of a simple shepherd in rural Greece, and agricultural knowledge and techniques, and all, as scholar Robert Lamberton wrote, in a voice that is "idiosyncratic, ironic, self-conscious…appropriating proverbial wisdom…and transforming it into a discourse that is as much an account of poetry as it is an account of the world." [Robert Lamberton, Hesiod, Yale Univ. Press]

Language: English

Pages: 241

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Release: June 01, 1959

ISBN: 0472439030

ISBN 13: 9780472439034

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