Ann Arbor Paperbacks: The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles (Paperback)

from Edwin_Oldham

I appreciate Lattimore's style, but there is no saving this sad summation of Hellenic cosmogonic mythology by the wannabe Homer, Hesiod. His work in Theogony is to me the precursor of the genealogical fantastic storytelling that has come to plague the Fantasy genre, inundating it with an intermin...

from jarvenpa

I like Lattimore's translations a great deal (but I am no one to judge accuracy).

from wrk1

This is the real thing. A man (or the narrator) talking about Greek life 2500 years ago, with absolute authority, because he lives it. The Works and Days is down-to-earth advice to a younger brother about how to get on in life, the Theogony contains tales of the gods, tales of their origins, thei...

from wrk1

This is the real thing. A man (or the narrator) talking about Greek life 2500 years ago, with absolute authority, because he lives it. The Works and Days is down-to-earth advice to a younger brother about how to get on in life, the Theogony contains tales of the gods, tales of their origins, thei...