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Hesiod: Theogony
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Focus Item #: 51005
Author(s): Richard Caldwell
ISBN: 978-0-941051-00-2
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Description
English translation. Introduction,
commentary and interpretive essay. This close translation and heavily annotated
version of the original epic written in Greek provides access for the English
speaking student into the first key work of Greek mythology. English
translation. 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 the Library of Apollodorus.
Market
For courses in Classical Civilization,
or Classical literature, epic, taught in English, in departments of Classics.
About the Author
Richard
Caldwell was Professor Emeritus at the
University of
Southern California. His PhD was from the
University of
Texas and he specializes in both the
Classics and psychoanalysis. He wrote the popular translation of Hesiod's Theogony and a new prose translation of
Vergil's Aeneid.
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