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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

EN·~4 hours·10 chapters

Chapters

10 total

THE REMAINS OF HESIOD THE ASCRÆAN

0:33

PREFACE.

11:25

DISSERTATION ON THE LIFE AND ÆRA OF HESIOD, HIS POEMS, AND MYTHOLOGY.

1:18:37

The Works and Days.

0:01

THE WORKS AND DAYS.

54:55

The Theogony.

0:00

THE THEOGONY.

59:47

The Shield of Hercules.

0:01

THE SHIELD OF HERCULES.

30:26

Appendix.

12:05

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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes. Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

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Duration

~4 hours (238K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Sonya Schermann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

Sep 20, 2021

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66350

Subjects

Hesiod -- Translations into English Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Poetry PA

About the author

Hesiod

One of the earliest Greek poets still read today, he helped shape how the ancient world imagined its gods, its work, and its moral order. His surviving poems mix myth, practical advice, and flashes of personal voice in a way that still feels surprisingly alive.

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