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Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns

Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns


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Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse. Since prose was not invented as a literary medium until well after Hesiod's time, presenting these works as poems more closely approximates not only the mechanics but also the melody of the originals.

This volume includes Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony, two of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive from antiquity. Works and Days is in part a farmer's almanac--filled with cautionary tales and advice for managing harvests and maintaining a good work ethic--and Theogony is the earliest comprehensive account of classical mythology--including the names and genealogies of the gods (and giants and monsters) of Olympus, the sea, and the underworld. Hine brings out Hesiod's unmistakable personality; Hesiod's tales of his escapades and his gritty and persuasive voice not only give us a sense of the author's own character but also offer up a rare glimpse of the everyday life of ordinary people in the eighth century BCE.

In contrast, the Homeric Hymns are more distant in that they depict aristocratic life in a polished tone that reveals nothing of the narrators' personalities. These hymns (so named because they address the deities in short invocations at the beginning and end of each) are some of the earliest examples of epyllia, or short stories in the epic manner in Greek.

This volume unites Hine's skillful translations of the Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns--along with Hine's rendering of the mock-Homeric epic The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice--in a stunning pairing of these masterful classics.

About the Author:

Daryl Hine is an award-winning poet and translator. The former editor of Poetry and a MacArthur fellow, he has published more than a dozen volumes of his own poetry and translations, including Theocritus: Idylls and Epigrams; Ovid's Heroides: A Verse Translation; and Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of "The Greek Anthology."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780226329659
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 403 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0226329658
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 230
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Works and Days, Theogony, The Homeric Hymns, The Battle of the Frogs and The Mice
  • Width: 138 mm


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