Works and Days and Theogony

The Works and Days is a didactic poem of some 800 lines written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BCE. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts.

Hesiod's poems revolve around two general truths: Labor is the universal lot of Man, and Those willing to work will get by. This work offers advice and wisdom, prescribing a life of honest efforts and avoiding idleness.

This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.

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.

This special edition (Large print with introduction and footnotes) brings together his three major works: The Theogony, Works and Days and The Shield of Heracles.

Contained in this volume are the three best-known works of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. Hesiod's "The Theogony" concerns the origins of the world and of the gods and forms a foundation for all Greek mythology.

Like his contemporary, Homer, Hesiod artfully relates the struggles and triumphs of the gods as he offers moral and practical advice for earthbound mortals.

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 ...

Greek poet Hesiod took many lines of thought and knowledge - myth, fable, personal experience, practical understanding - and wove them into one great whole.

A new verse-translation celebrating the poetry of Hesiod's great works, Theogony and Works and Days

The Works and Days, a compendium of moral and practical advice for a life of honest husbandry, throws a unique and fascinating light on archaic Greek society, ethics, and superstition.

Hesiod is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. Hesiod composed the Theogony and Works and Days.

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.

A clear, modern translation of two vital works of Greek mythology, this collection presents The Theogony, telling the story of how the gods of Ancient Greece established control over the cosmos, and Works and Days, suggesting that labor is ...

... Trojan prince Tithonos, who holds a lyre. Their son will be the great Ethiopian fighter Memnon, famous in the Trojan Cycle. Dawn requested from Zeus eternal life for Tithonos but forgot to ask for eternal youth: He shriveled up like a ...

For this eagerly anticipated revised edition, Athanassakis has provided an expanded introduction on Hesiod and his work, subtly amended his faithful translations, significantly augmented the notes and index, and updated the bibliography.

Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization between the oral tradition and the introduction of a written alphabet.

... ageless forever. Perseis, famous daughter of Okeanos, bore to Helios, who never wearies, both Kirke and King Aietes. Then Aietes, son of Helios who shines his light on mortals through divine decree, married Idyia of the blooming cheeks ...

... Eosphoros , TH 382 Epimetheus , WD 86 ; TH 511 proverbial for foolishness , TH 507-6151 epiphany , of the Muses to Hesiod , THI115N , 22-34n Erebos , TH 123 , 124 , 515 , 669 born from Chaos , TH 116–25n produces Ether and Day with ...

... XXX. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee! The bee awaked—with anger wild The bee awaked, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick ...

... Purușa hymn sings of . In order to produce the universe , the metaphysical essence of the universe , i.e. the prototype of the universe , had to be offered as the oblation , and Purusa was this essence , the final cause . Purusa is ...

... Eosphoros' and the shining Stars the sky wears as a crown. Styx, daughter of Okeanos, lay with Pallas and bore” Zelos and fine-ankled Nike in the house; and she bore famous children, Kratos and Bia, 385 whose house is not apart from ...

... Plan Be Sure. 7 DAYS WORKOUT and DIET PLAN DAY 1 DAY 2 Perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions of each exercise , perform 30 seconds per set for still exercises and 10 seconds break in between each set ... DAY 3 .... DAY 4 Day 5 ......... Day 6 ...

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