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,… More >>
Hesiod: Volume I, Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia
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To fully understand other classics you need this and other books written during the period. People haven’t changed, just the technological environment in which they work. Like scientists who study weather on other planets to understand our own, this book and it’s other volumes, present a view of human behavior with a clear spoken narrative and without the filter of our propagandized times and our emotional bagage.
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