
"Specimens of Chapman's Hesiod": p. 253-262.
Full title
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.
Language
en
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
2021-09-20
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

Often placed among the earliest Greek poets, this mysterious voice from ancient Boeotia helped shape how generations imagined the gods, the world’s beginnings, and the hard realities of work. Two poems especially, Theogony and Works and Days, made his name endure for more than two thousand years.
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