Theogony ; and, Works and days
by Hesiod, Hesiod, West, M. L., (Martin Litchfield)
fromWorld's classics
Theogony ; and, Works and days
by Hesiod, Hesiod, West, M. L., (Martin Litchfield)
fromWorld's classics
"Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization during which a literary culture sustained through oral tradition was transformed by the emergence of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, present a broad view of t…
"Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization during which a literary culture sustained through oral tradition was transformed by the emergence of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, present a broad view of t…
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.
