Theogony
(Paperback, New edition)
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Publishing Details
Theogony
By (Author) Hesiod
Edited and translated by Richard Caldwell
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
1st January 1987
New edition
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
881.01
Physical Properties
Paperback
129
Width 127mm, Height 229mm, Spine 7mm
173g
Description
This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and background of the epic, and the mythological context in which it is placed. Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. Includes Hesiod's "Works and Days", lines 1-201, and material from the Library of Apollodorus.
Author Bio
Richard Caldwell (deceased) was Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California. His PhD was from the University of Texas and he specialized in both the Classics and psychoanalysis. He wrote the popular transation of Hesiod's "Theogony" and a prose translation of Vergil's "Aeneid".
