This edition contains the collected works of Hesiod including Works
and Days, The Shield of Heracles, The Theogeny as well as Homer's
Hymns, Epigrams and fragments of the Epic Cycle. Hesiod was a Greek
oral 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 with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors
credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs.
Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology,
farming techniques, early economic thought (he is sometimes
identified as the first economist), archaic Greek astronomy and
ancient time-keeping. In the Western classical tradition, Homer is
the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the
greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the
beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an
enormous influence on the history of literature.
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