The Poems of Hesiod
by Hesiod
1983·164 pages·en
Publisher, ISBN & more
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- ISBN
- 9780806118468
About this book
Hesiod is the first Greek and, therefore, the first European we can know as a real person, for, unlike Homer, he tells us about himself in his poems. Hesiod seems to have been a successful farmer and a rather gloomy though not humorless man. One suspects from his concern for the bachelor's lot and some rather unflattering remarks about women that he was never married. A close study of both poems reveals the same personality -that of a deeply religious man concerned with the problems of justice and fate.
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