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Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"The Theogony is one of the most important mythical texts to survive from antiquity, and we devote the first section to it. It tells of the creation of the pres
Language: en
Pages: 164
Pages: 164
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Hesiod is the first Greek and, therefore, the first European we can know as a real person, for, unlike Homer, he tells us about himself in his poems. Hesiod see
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian
Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been con
Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher:
A new verse-translation celebrating the poetry of Hesiod's great works, Theogony and Works and Days