Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield
Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield
- ISBN 13:
9780801829994
- ISBN 10:
0801829992
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/01/1984
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Newer Edition
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Summary
Introducing his celebrated translations of these two poems and of the Shield, Apostolos Athanassakis positions Hesiod simultaneously as a philosopher-poet, a bard with deep roots in the culture of his native Boeotia, and the heir to a long tradition of Hellenic poetry.