The Complete Works

by Hesiod

Composed around the same time as Homer, Hesiod’s works helped establish Greek religious customs throughout antiquity, providing a major source on mythology and a fascinating window into the life of the ordinary man 700 years before the birth of Christ. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Hesiod, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hesiod's life and works
* Features the complete works of Hesiod, in both English translation and the original Greek
* Concise introductions to the poetry
* Includes the complete translations previously appearing in Loeb Classical Library editions of Hesiod’s works
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes Hesiod's rare fragments
* Features two bonus biographies, including the ancient account THE CONTEST OF HOMER AND HESIOD - discover Hesiod's ancient world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

Please note: some Kindle software programs cannot display Greek characters correctly, however they do display correctly on Kindle devices.

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CONTENTS:

The Translations
WORKS AND DAYS
THE THEOGONY
THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
THE SHIELD OF HERACLES
FRAGMENTS

The Greek Texts
LIST OF GREEK TEXTS

The Biographies
INTRODUCTION TO HESIOD by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
THE CONTEST OF HOMER AND HESIOD

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Genres: Classics, Poetry, Reference, Mythology, Philosophy, History

265 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 30, 2013

About the author

Hesiod (Greek: Ησίοδος) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these are Theogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus's rise to power, and Works and Days, a poem that describes the five Ages of Man, offers advice and wisdom, and includes myths such as Pandora's box.
Hesiod is generally regarded by Western authors as 'the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject.' Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought, Archaic Greek astronomy, cosmology, and ancient time-keeping.

Reviews

[T.J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

‘Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things.’

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of my pre-Homer reading - Homer, for the first time in over 40 years!
I am using Oxford World Classics volume for the 2 major works, but this fills in the lesser works and many fragments well.
There are 2 ebook versions of this Loeb classic by Hugh G. Evelyn-White out there. And this is the Loeb Classical Library edition (sans Notes, oddly). Both are very affordable as ebooks (less so in print).
This one updates the font to modern standards.
The other version is a PDF replica, includes a longer Intro (appreciation of Hesiod), Notes (not included here!), and the addition of the Homeric Hymns and Homerica.
Either one works fine - this is easier to read (modern font). The other gives you more information and more content (the Homerica).
The pages of fragments are a mish mash that not even Notes can help make sense out of in most cases. But, for the completist, it is nice to have ALL of Hesiod in one place.

[Robert Lloyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good resource for learning about the spirit of ancient Greece

I am by no means a classicist, but I have always had a fondness and fascination with the ancient world. I'm glad I read Hesiod, I found his works beautiful in many parts, as his works seemed to combine the mundane things in life and suffuse them with beauty and wonder as he related them to the gods.

[Barry Cunningham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Important, but tedious

His main surviving works, “Theogony” and “Works and Days”, are unrelieved by any semblance of plot. Nevertheless, the “Theogony” is particularly important historically for its genealogy of the Greek gods around the time of Homer.

[ari · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars