Theogony/Works and Days/Shield by Apostolos N. Athanassakis, Hesiod

Theogony/Works and Days/Shield

Apostolos N. Athanassakis, Hesiod

192 pages first pub -800 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging informative slow-paced

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Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization between the oral tradition and the introduction of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, address the divine and the mundane, respecti...

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