Hesiod: Theogony

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 is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California. His PhD is from the University of Texas and he specializes in both the Classics and psychoanalysis. He has written the popular transation of Hesiod's Theogony and a new prose translation of Vergil's Aeneid.