Theogony & Works and Days
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Theogony & Works and Days
By (Author) Hesiod
Edited and translated by Stephanie Nelson
Translated by Richard Caldwell
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
16th July 2008
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Literary studies: poetry and poets
881.01
Physical Properties
Paperback
142
Width 153mm, Height 229mm
227g
Description
Greek poet Hesiod took many lines of thought and knowledge - myth, fable, personal experience, practical understanding - and wove them into one great whole. He did as much with the origins of the Greek gods in the Theogony, and then did the same in creating his manual of moral and practical advice, Works and Days. Here, Stephanie Nelson's translation of Works and Days is paired with Richard S. Caldwell's take on the Theogony. Along with introductory essays, these comprehensible versions of Hesiod's two best-known poems make it easy for readers to see why Hesiod's writings continue to resound through the ages.
Author Bio
Stephanie Nelson (PhD. Chicago) is Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University and has written numerous works on Hesiod and Aristophanes. 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 translation of Hesiod's "Theogony" and a prose translation of Vergil's "Aeneid".
