Hesiodi Theogonia ; Opera et dies ; Scutum

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E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1990 - Literary Collections - 246 pages
In this new and third edition, the additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition have been incorporated in the main text. Some further discoveries have been included, and reference has been made to the results of recent research on the relative placing of certain papyrus fragments. The index of names has been brought up to date.
 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
2
Section 3
5
Section 4
49
Section 5
86
Section 6
88
Section 7
111
Section 8
113
Section 12
203
Section 13
205
Section 14
206
Section 15
207
Section 16
208
Section 17
210
Section 18
213
Section 19
220

Section 9
191
Section 10
196
Section 11
199
Section 20
225
Section 21
227
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About the author (1990)

Hesiod, the early Greek poet and rhapsode who presumably lived around 700 BCE, serves as a major source for knowledge of Greek mythology, farming techniques, archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping. Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, M. L. West is formerly Professor of Greek at the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London.

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