Ancient Greek & Roman
Hesiod
Hesiod was a Greek poet of Boeotia who lived around 700 BC, roughly contemporary with Homer. In the Theogony he says the Muses called him to song while he was tending sheep on Mount Helicon, and in the Works and Days he describes his father’s move from Aeolian Cyme to Ascra, and a dispute with his brother Perses over their inheritance.
He is credited with the Theogony, an account of the origins of the gods, and the Works and Days, a poem of moral and practical instruction for farmers. The Shield of Heracles has long been attributed to him but is thought by most scholars to be a later composition. Both works are presented here in the 1914 prose translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White.
Major Works (10)
- The Catalogues of Women and Other Fragments — translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Loeb, 1914)
- The Shield of Hercules — translated by Charles Abraham Elton (2nd ed., 1815)
- The Shield of Heracles — translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
- The Shield of Heracles — translated by A. W. Mair (1908)
- The Theogony — translated by Charles Abraham Elton (2nd ed., 1815)
- Theogony — translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
- Theogony — translated by A. W. Mair (1908)
- Works and Days — translated by Charles Abraham Elton (2nd ed., 1815)
- Works and Days — translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
- Works and Days — translated by A. W. Mair (1908)