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Theogony; Works and Days; Testimonia; The Shield; Catalogue of Women; Other Fragments (2 volumes)

Door Hesiod

Categorie	Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer	#422218-YF16
Titel	Theogony; Works and Days; Testimonia; The Shield; Catalogue of Women; Other Fragments (2 volumes)
Auteur	Hesiod
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0674996224
ISBN13	9780674996229
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	2 uniform original gilt lettered green cloths, dust jackets, 2006-2007, translated by Glenn W. Most, LXXXII,308,(10)+X,434,(4) pages, text in Greek and English, reprinted, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library 57 and 503. ISBN volume I: 9780674996229 and ISBN volume II: 9780674996236.
Samenvatting	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 considered a younger contemporary of Homer. This volume of the new Loeb Classical Library edition offers a general introduction, a fluid translation facing an improved Greek text of Hesiod's two extant poems, and a generous selection of testimonia from a wide variety of ancient sources regarding Hesiod's life, works, and reception. In Theogony Hesiod charts the history of the divine world, narrating the origin of the universe and the rise of the gods, from first beginnings to the triumph of Zeus, and reporting on the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal men. In Works and Days Hesiod shifts his attention to the world of... (Lees verder) men, delivering moral precepts and practical advice regarding agriculture, navigation, and many other matters; along the way he gives us the myths of Pandora and of the Golden, Silver, and other Races of Men.
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