LoginHesiod, II: The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments (Loeb Classical Library)
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This volume, which completes the new Loeb Classical Library edition of Hesiod, contains The Shield and extant fragments of other poems, including the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest. The Catalogue of Women is a systematic presentation in five books of a large number of Greek legendary heroes and episodes, organized according to the genealogy of the heroes' mortal mothers. The Shield provides a Hesiodic counterpoint to the shield of Achilles in the Iliad, with Heracles as the protagonis
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 1 March 2007
ISBN-10 : 0674996232 | ISBN-13: 9780674996236
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Release date: 1 March 2007
ISBN-10 : 0674996232 | ISBN-13: 9780674996236
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