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.
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Earnest, grave, epic and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 133
- Publisher
- F. Serra, Penguin Books, Bobbs-Merrill
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- grc, English, Italian, German
- ISBN
- 9783921255957
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“The poems of Hesiod were probably composed at about the same time as the poems of Homer, perhaps towards the end of the eighth century B.C.”
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