Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia
Hesiod
Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia
Hesiod
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The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine world, and Works and Days, in which he delivers moral precepts and practical advice for the world of men.
For a wider audience, especially in this era of resurgent environmental verse, the day of the rural seer and sage may finally have arrived. Glenn Most’s splendid new bilingual volume is, therefore, timely… It offers readers and scholars alike the most reliable prose translation and the richest supplementary materials available.
In the stimulating introduction to his new Loeb Classics two-volume edition of Hesiod, Glenn Most makes the case that we, too, should admire Hesiod for his powerful and unified worldview… The vast questions that are addressed in these poems—the origins of the gods, the way the world works, the reasons why things are as they are—can be seen as the first rumblings of natural science, physics, philosophy, theology, medicine, autobiography, agriculture, law, even history and textual criticism… Hesiod is our oldest source for many of the best-known and best-loved stories of Greek mythology… The disturbing moral complexity of the Hesiodic poems is all the more reason why we should continue to read and study them.
Glenn W. Most is Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
For a wider audience, especially in this era of resurgent environmental verse, the day of the rural seer and sage may finally have arrived. Glenn Most’s splendid new bilingual volume is, therefore, timely… It offers readers and scholars alike the most reliable prose translation and the richest supplementary materials available.
In the stimulating introduction to his new Loeb Classics two-volume edition of Hesiod, Glenn Most makes the case that we, too, should admire Hesiod for his powerful and unified worldview… The vast questions that are addressed in these poems—the origins of the gods, the way the world works, the reasons why things are as they are—can be seen as the first rumblings of natural science, physics, philosophy, theology, medicine, autobiography, agriculture, law, even history and textual criticism… Hesiod is our oldest source for many of the best-known and best-loved stories of Greek mythology… The disturbing moral complexity of the Hesiodic poems is all the more reason why we should continue to read and study them.
Glenn W. Most is Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.