Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)
by Hesiod
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Author: HesiodTranslator: M. L. West
Introduction: M. L. West
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999
ISBN: 0192839411
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: Thoreau Is Hesiod Reincarnated
Summary: 4 Stars
Many readers focus on the Theogony, which is the ancient Greeks Creation Story, and which Hesiod articulated masterfully. The descriptions of the battles between Zeus and the Titans made for vivid and stirring oration in the hands of a great speaker, as he boasts that he was by citing his awards. However, I was more intrigued by Works and Days. The advice of Hesiod was, indeed, sagacious: "It is good to take from what is available, but sorrow to the heart to be wanting what is not." And I liked this one: "Right gets the upper hand over violence in the end." At times he seemed like Thoreau incarnate preaching industry and self-reliance from his little cabin on Walden Pond: "Avoid shady seats and sleeping til sunrise at harvest time, when the sun parches the skin. At that time get on with it and gather home the harvest, rising before dawn so that your livelihood may be assured. For the morning accounts for a third of the work." Or this one: "For property is as life to wretched mortals." Some of his advice is quaint, as when a man should take a wife. The thing of it is that so much of what passed for wisdom in ancient days would still pass for it today.
Summary of Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)
This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy and account of the struggles of the gods, and the Works and Days offers a compendium of moral and practical advice for a life of honest husbandry.Literary Theory Books
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