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Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer. This volume of the new Loeb Classical Library edition offers a general introduction, a fluid translation facing an improved Greek text of Hesiod's two extant poems, and a generous selection of testimonia from a wide variety of ancient sources regarding Hesiod's life, works, and reception.
In Theogony Hesiod charts the history of the divine world, narrating the origin of the universe and the rise of the gods, from first beginnin
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 15 January 2007
ISBN-10 : 0674996224 | ISBN-13: 9780674996229
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Release date: 15 January 2007
ISBN-10 : 0674996224 | ISBN-13: 9780674996229
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