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Works and Days (Penguin Classics)

Works and Days (Penguin Classics)

by Hesiod (Author), Hesiod (Author), A. E. Stallings (Translator)

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Synopsis

A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet A. E. Stallings. Hesiod was the first self-styled 'poet' in western literature, revered by the ancient Greeks. Ostensibly written to chide and educate his lazy brother, Works and Days tells the story of Pandora's jar and humanity's place in a fallen world. Blending the cosmic and the earthy, and mixing myth, lyrical description, personal asides, astronomy, proverbs and down-to-earth advice on rural tasks and rituals, it is also a hymn to honest toil as man's salvation. This vibrant new verse translation by award-winning poet A. E. Stallings conveys the clarity and unexpected humour of a founding work of classical literature.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 01 Feb 2018
ISBN 10: 0141197528
ISBN 13: 9780141197524
Book Overview: A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings.

Media Reviews
A. E. Stallings brings Hesiod back to life in her rhyming translation of Works and Days, which mingles farming tips, myths and evocation of the seasons: when first the cuckoo cuckoos in the oak . Stallings's lively and learned notes make it a treat * The Times *
Author Bio
Hesiod (Author) Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, probably lived in the eighth century BC in the backwater of Askra, a hamlet in Boeotia, on the Greek mainland. As the probable author of both the Theogony and Works and Days, he is the first self-styled poet in Western literature, the first to tell us his own name and the first to advertise himself as a prize-winning poet. A. E. Stallings (Translator) A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator. She has published three books of original verse, Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), and Olives (2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her verse translation of Lucretius' The Nature of Things (2007) is published in Penguin Classics.