Author: Hesiod (Keywords)

This volume contains 'The Shield' and extant fragments of other poems, including the 'Catalogue of Women', that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest.

This volume contains 'The Shield' and extant fragments of other poems, including the 'Catalogue of Women', that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest.

Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the Titans. In contrast, Works and Days is a c...