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Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns (Hardcover)
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Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns (Hardcover)
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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 Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating
translations represent these early classics as they originally
appeared, in verse. Since prose was not invented as a literary
medium until well after Hesiod's time, presenting these works as
poems more closely approximates not only the mechanics but also the
melody of the originals.
This volume includes Hesiod's "Works and Days" and "Theogony," two
of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive from antiquity. "Works
and Days" is in part a farmer's almanac--filled with cautionary
tales and advice for managing harvests and maintaining a good work
ethic--and "Theogony" is the earliest comprehensive account of
classical mythology--including the names and genealogies of the
gods (and giants and monsters) of Olympus, the sea, and the
underworld. Hine brings out Hesiod's unmistakable personality;
Hesiod's tales of his escapades and his gritty and persuasive voice
not only give us a sense of the author's own character but also
offer up a rare glimpse of the everyday life of ordinary people in
the eighth century BCE.
In contrast, the Homeric Hymns are more distant in that they depict
aristocratic life in a polished tone that reveals nothing of the
narrators' personalities. These hymns (so named because they
address the deities in short invocations at the beginning and end
of each) are some of the earliest examples of "epyllia," or
shortstories in the epic manner in Greek.
This volume unites Hine's skillful translations of the "Works of
Hesiod" and the Homeric Hymns--along with Hine's rendering of the
mock-Homeric epic "The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice"--in a
stunning pairing of these masterful classics.
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