Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Including Theogony and Works and Days

by Hesiod

Book Overview

Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226329666
• ISBN13: 9780226329666
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.0"