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Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns , highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse. Since prose was not invented as a literary medium until well after Hesiod's time, presenting these works as poems more closely approximates not only the mechanics but also the melody of the originals. This volume includes Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony , two of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive from antiquity. Works and Days is in part a farmer's almanacfilled with cautionary tales and advice for managing harvests and maintaining a good work ethicand Theogony is the earliest comprehensive account of classical mythologyincluding the names and genealogies of the gods (and giants and monsters) of Olympus, the sea, and the underworld. Hine brings out Hesiod's unmistakable personality; Hesiod's tales of his escapades and his gritty and

Author

Hesiodus, Dichter Griechenland; Daryl Hine; Homerus, Epiker Griechenland

Publisher

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226329673

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13