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Hints from Hesiod is an 1883 translation of Hesiod's Works and Days, along with Horace's "Praises of Rural Life," by an Officer of the United States Treasury Department. It also contains prefatory arguments, a large set of notes, and a substantial appendix.
Herodotus asserts that Homer and Hesiod made the theogony of the Greeks; and in reference to Hesiod in particular, this probably means that Hesiod collected and combined into a system the various local legends, especially of northern Greece, such as they had been handed down by priests and bards.
Hints from Hesiod: Author: Hesiod, Horace, and an Officer of the U.S. Treasury Department: Year: 1883: Publisher: Brentano Bros. Source: pdf: Progress: Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated: Transclusion: Fully transcluded
Hesiod (flourished c. 700 bc) was one of the earliest Greek poets, often called the “father of Greek didactic poetry.” Two of his complete epics have survived, the Theogony , relating the myths of the gods, and the Works and Days , describing peasant life.
- Friedrich Solmsen
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.
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Related Links: Hesiod Subject Area: Literature Related Links in the GSR: Hesiod Source: Introduction to Hesiod's The Poems and Fragments done into English Prose with Introduction and Appendices by A.W. Mair M.A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908). INTRODUCTION I. THE HESIODIC EPOS 1. ‘Poetry is earlier than Prose’ is a familiar dictum of historical literary criticism, and the dictum is a true ...
