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Hesiod - Theogony, Works and Days, Shield (Paperback, third edition)
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Hesiod - Theogony, Works and Days, Shield (Paperback, third edition)
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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. Introducing his celebrated
translations of Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis positions the
philosopher-poet as heir to a long tradition of Hellenic poetry.
Hesiod's poems demonstrate the author's passionate interest in the
governance of human society through justice and a tangible work
ethic. As a physicist and a materialist, Hesiod avoided such
subjects as honor and the afterlife. His works contain the oldest
fundamentals on law and Greek economy, making Hesiod the first
great thinker of Western civilization. Athanassakis's contextual
notes offer both comparison to Biblical and Norse mythologies as
well as anthropological connections to modern Greece. The third
edition of this classic undergraduate text includes a thoroughly
updated bibliography reflecting the last two decades of
scholarship. The introductions and notes have been enriched,
clarifying contextual history and the meaning of Hesiod's own
language and themes, and notes have been newly added to the Shield.
Athanassakis has lightly improved his translation throughout the
text, expertly balancing the natural flow of the verse while
adhering closely to the literal Greek.
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