This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy and account of the struggles of the gods, and the Works and Days offers a compendium of moral and practical advice for a life of honest husbandry.

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Theogony details Hesiod's interpretation of the origins of the world and of the gods, beginning with Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros, and shows a special interest in genealogy. Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed.

Works and Days is a poem of over 800 lines which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by. The work lays out the five Ages of Man, as well as advice and wisdom, prescribing a life of honest labour and attacking idleness and unjust judges as well as the practice of usury.

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From the origins of the cosmos to the trials of mortal life, this ancient text weaves together mythology and morality. The Theogonyunveils the dramatic lineage of the gods, recounting their battles for power and their role in shaping the universe. Works and Daysshifts to a more grounded perspective, offering timeless wisdom on justice, hard work, and humanity's place in the divine order. Together, they explore the tension between chaos and order, myth and reality, in a world governed by both divine and mortal struggles.

As one of the oldest works of Western literature, Theogony and Works and Days offers a rare glimpse into ancient Greek cosmology and morality. It establishes the genealogy of the gods, forming the foundation for much of Greek mythology and its enduring cultural influence. Beyond mythology, it provides practical wisdom and ethical reflections, bridging divine narratives with the realities of human life. Hesiod's work shaped classical thought and continues to inspire discussions on justice, work, and humanity's connection to the divine.

Hesiod was a simple shepherd of Boetia in 700 BC Greece until, as he himself describes, he became beloved of the Muses who bestowed upon him a laurel staff and with it the gift of Poetry: they breathed into me wondrous voice, so that I should celebrate things of the future and things that were aforetime.

Hesiod's earliest poem, the famous Works and Days, shines a light on the daily tasks, timings, and strategies needed to farm successfully in the ancient world. Full of wise admonitions, and interwoven with episodes of myth, allegory, and the poet's own experiences, it forms a fascinating Farming Diary from the remote past.

The Theogony is altogether a work of greater ambition: a glorious - and at the time, a unique - attempt to work the numerous legends of Greek gods, goddesses and demi-gods into a coherent and reasonably logical system. This catalogue of deities is leavened with a multitude of their mythical exploits, including murder, infanticide, incest, cannibalism and emasculation as the action leads up to the Titanomachia, the epic battle between the Olympian gods, led by Zeus, and the Titans, who support Cronus.

Hesiod's poems are more than a storied overture to the sublime works of Homer - they are, in themselves, a powerful, emotional connection with the cultural richness and beliefs of our European ancestors some two and a half millennia ago. A must-read for anyone interested in Western Philosophy and Culture.

In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the poems and notes that explicate complex passages, Powell's fresh renditions provide an exciting introduction to the culture of the ancient Greeks.

This is the definitive translation and guide for students and readers looking to experience the poetry of Hesiod, who ranks alongside Homer as an influential poet of Greek antiquity.

Greek poet Hesiod, who lived sometime during the 8th and 7th century B.C., is regarded as one the most important poets of classical antiquity. What little is known of him largely comes from his own epic poetry, in which he unconventionally inserted details of his life. Only three of his works, the Theogony, Works and Days, and the Shield of Heracles survive to this day in their entirety. The Theogony is a foundational work of Greek mythology which concerns the creation of the world and the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. In synthesizing the variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods into a single narrative, Hesiod's Theogony would give uniformity to his culture's myths in a way that would be highly influential. Also included in this volume is Hesiod's Works and Days, in which the poet argues that labor is a fundamental condition of human existence and to those who are willing to work success will most surely be achieved. A treatise on the virtue of hard work, Works and Days is a didactic poem addressed to his brother Perses, who has squandered his inheritance, and who through bribery has deprived Hesiod of part of his own patrimony. Lastly in this volume is the Shield of Heracles a work which details the conflict between the mythological figures of Heracles and Cycnus. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translations of Hugh G. Evelyn-White.

This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to Works and Days for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture, and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger, changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period.

The authors provide a clear, accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic, political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of Works and Days.

Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian

This selection is aimed at those coming to Hesiod's works for the first time. It includes the Greek text of Theogony 1-232, 453-733 and Works and Days 1-307, along withintroduction and commentary.

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La Teogon a es una obra po tica escrita por Hes odo y relata la genealog a de los dioses de la mitolog a griega. Contiene una de las m s antiguas versiones del origen del cosmos y el linaje de los dioses griegos, y es una de las obras claves de la pica grecolatina. Se discute si debe fecharse en el siglo VII a. C. o en el VIII a. C.

Esta obra podr a considerarse el primer libro de autoayuda de la historia. Describe lo que Hes odo llama las cinco Edades del Hombre, adem s de contener consejo y sabidur a, prescribiendo una vida de trabajo honesto y atacando la ociosidad, los jueces injustos y la pr ctica de la usura. Considera el trabajo como origen de todo bien, pues tanto hombres como dioses odian a los holgazanes, que parecen z nganos en una colmena.

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Widely considered the first poet in the Western tradition to address the matter of his own experience, Hesiod occupies a seminal position in literary history. His Theogony brings together and formalizes many of the narratives of Greek myth, detailing the genealogy of its gods and their violent struggles for power. The Works and Days seems on its face to be a compendium of advice about managing a farm, but it ranges far beyond this scope to meditate on morality, justice, the virtues of a good life, and the place of humans in the universe. These poems are concerned with orderliness and organization, and they proclaim those ideals from small-scale to vast, from a handful of seeds to the story of the cosmos. Presented here in a bilingual edition, Johnson's translation takes care to preserve the structure of Hesiod's lines and sentences, achieving a sonic and rhythmic balance that enables us to hear his music across the millennia.

Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded as the rst written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought (he is sometimes considered history's rst economist), archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time- keeping. Three works have survived which are attributed to Hesiod by ancient commentators: Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles. This book contains translations of all these works and other fragments of various works attributed to Hesiod.The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work. This work lays out the ve Ages of Man, as well as containing advice and wisdom, prescribing a life of honest labour and attacking idleness and unjust judges (like those who decided in favour of Perses) as well as the practice of usury. It describes immortals who roam the earth watching over justice and injustice. The poem regards labor as the source of all good, in that both gods and men hate the idle, who resemble drones in a hive.The Works and Days is a poem of over 800 lines which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by. Scholars have interpreted this work against a background of agrarian crisis in mainland Greece, which inspired a wave of documented colonisations in search of new land. This poem is one of the earliest known musings on economic thought.This classic title has been published by RADLEY BOOKS. Each RADLEY CLASSIC is a meticulously restored, luxurious and faithful reproduction of a classic book; produced with elegant text layout, clarity of presentation, and stylistic features that make reading a true pleasure. Special attention is given to legible fonts and adequate letter sizing, correct line length for readability, generous margins and triple lead (lavish line separation); plus we do not allow any mistakes/changes/additions to creep into the author's words.Visit RADLEY BOOKS at www.radleybooks.com (or search RADLEY CLASSIC on Amazon) to see more classic book titles in this series.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns and Homerica by Homer and Hesiod. The early Greek epic - that is, poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary form - passed through the usual three phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline. No fragments which can be identified as belonging to the first period survive to give us even a general idea of the history of the earliest epic, and we are therefore thrown back upon the evidence of analogy from other forms of literature and of inference from the two great epics which have come down to us. So reconstructed, the earliest period appears to us as a time of slow development in which the characteristic epic metre, diction, and structure grew up slowly from crude elements and were improved until the verge of maturity was reached. The second period, which produced the Iliad and the Odyssey, needs no description here: but it is very important to observe the effect of these poems on the course of post-Homeric epic. As the supreme perfection and universality of the Iliad and the Odyssey cast into oblivion whatever pre-Homeric poets had essayed, so these same qualities exercised a paralysing influence over the successors of Homer. If they continued to sing like their great predecessor of romantic themes, they were drawn as by a kind of magnetic attraction into the Homeric style and manner of treatment, and became mere echoes of the Homeric voice: in a word, Homer had so completely exhausted the epic genre, that after him further efforts were doomed to be merely conventional.

In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the poems and notes that explicate complex passages, Powell's fresh renditions provide an exciting introduction to the culture of the ancient Greeks.

This is the definitive translation and guide for students and readers looking to experience the poetry of Hesiod, who ranks alongside Homer as an influential poet of Greek antiquity.

The Theogony and Works and Days are written by Hesiod, who was one of the earliest Greek poets. The Theogony is largely a historical geneaology of gods which starts at the beginning of the world. Works and Days includes both partical and moral advice on husbandry and is widely known as one of the earliest sources for many important myths including that of Pandora and Prometheus. This is an excellent publication for those who study or are interested in greek mythology and also those who are fans or collectors of the writings of Hesiod.

Hesiod: Theogonie Entstanden im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hier in der bers. v. Rudolf Peppm ller, Halle a.d.S.: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1896. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2017. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Hesiodos. bers. v. Rudolf Peppm ller, Halle a. d. S.: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1896. Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgef hrt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Jakob Asmus Carstens, Kampf der Titanen und G tter, 1795. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Homer, Hesiod, Translated by H. G. Evelyn-White. The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns are Homeric in the sense that they employ the same epic meter