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God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil With a Translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by David Greneby Hesiod , David Grene, Stephanie A. NelsonISBN 0195117409 (0-19-511740-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil With a Translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by David Grene'Book summary:In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications.
Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense. [via]More editions of God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil With a Translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by David Grene:
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Hesiod and Theognisby Hesiod , David Grene, Stephanie A. NelsonISBN 0140442839 (0-14-044283-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hesiod and Theognis'Book summary:Together the poetry of "Hesiod and Theognis" offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's "Theogoney" (c. 725 BCE) is a powerful creation myth: an epic, bloody tale of dark forces, sex and violence, tracing the history of the world from primeval Chaos to the establishment of Zeus as supreme king of the gods. In contrast, Hesiod's "Works and Days", written to advise his indolent brother Perseus, is an intriguing, sophisticated combination of ethical maxims, social and political comment and superstitious law. Elegiac rather than epic, the works of Theognis - written some two centuries after Hesiod - include theological speculations, love lyrics and moral advice for his protege Kurnos, reflecting the moods and themes of an aristocratic poet who mourned a changing Greek society. [via]
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Hesiod: The Work and Days/Theogony/the Shield of Heraklesby Hesiod , Richmond LattimoreISBN 0472081616 (0-472-08161-6)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Hesiod's Works and Daysby Hesiod , Walter C. Neale, David W. TandyISBN 0520203836 (0-520-20383-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Theogonyby HesiodISBN 0023153105 (0-02-315310-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Theogony and Works and Daysby Hesiod , M.L. WestISBN 0192839411 (0-19-283941-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theogony and Works and Days'Book summary:[via]Written in the late eighth century BC by Hesiod, one of the oldest known of Greek poets, Theogony and Works and Days represent the earliest account of the origin of the Greek gods, and an invaluable compendium of advice for leading a moral life, both offering unique insights into archaic Greek society. There are a number of modern translations of Hesiod available, rendered in serviceable English, but until now no one has created a work of literature equal to the original. This translation is the result of a unique collaboration between a classicist and a poet, capturing in English fourteeners the works true poetic flavor while remaining faithful to the Greek text and the archaic world in which it was composed.This translation contains a general introduction, a translators introduction, notes, and a glossary. It will be of interest to general readers, students of and specialists in classical literature, and lovers of poetry.
"This Schlegel-Weinfield translation of Hesiod is superbly crafted: compelling, unforgettable poetry to be read aloud with delight and gratitude."
—Allen Mandelbaum, Endowed Kenan Professor of Humanities, Wake Forest University
"This exciting and unique collaboration between a classical philologist and a poet will not just provide insight into archaic Greek society, but also offer something new: the opportunity to experience the richness of Hesiod's style, language, and modes of thought with remarkable fidelity to the ancient Greek. Weinfield and Schlegel make Hesiod sing."
—Carole Newlands, Classics Department, University of Wisconsin
"Schlegel and Weinfield have produced one of the most remarkable of a current resurgence of translations from the classics, allowing the modern world to hear a poet who may have known Homer. Hesiods song makes us understand why the Greeks thought a poet could draw dolphins through the seas or raise the walls of Thebes. Weinfield translates by ear and transfers what he hears to the page, resonant fourteeners, a worthy echo of the past."—Charles Stanley Ross, Professor, Department of English, and Director, Comparative Literature, PurdueUniversity
Catherine Schlegel is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Notre Dame. Henry Weinfield is Professor and Chair of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, and translator of The Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme.More editions of Theogony and Works and Days:
- Theogony And Works And Days: ISBN 0472069322 (0-472-06932-2)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr - Theogony And Works And Days: ISBN 0472099329 (0-472-09932-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr - Theogony and Works and Days: ISBN 0192817884 (0-19-281788-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Theogony and Works and Days: ISBN 019251038X (0-19-251038-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Theogony and Works and Days: ISBN 0192839411 (0-19-283941-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- Theogony And Works And Days: ISBN 0472069322 (0-472-06932-2)
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Work and Days : With Prolegomena and Commentaryby Hesiod , M. L. WestISBN 0198140053 (0-19-814005-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Work and Days : With Prolegomena and Commentary'Book summary:This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to Works and Days for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture, and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger, changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period.[via]
The authors provide a clear, accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic, political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of Works and Days.More editions of Work and Days : With Prolegomena and Commentary:
Works and Daysby Hesiod , Hesiodus, T.A. SinclairISBN 040511446X (0-405-11446-X)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Works And Days, Theogony And the Shield of Heraclesby Hesiod , Hugh G. Evelyn-WhiteISBN 0486452182 (0-486-45218-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Works And Days, Theogony And the Shield of Heracles'Book summary:These three classics of Greek literature often called extended poems helped bridge the oral and written traditions of Greek civilization. Like his contemporary, Homer, Hesiod artfully recounts the struggles and triumphs of the gods and offers moral and practical advice for mortals. A marvelously readable and accurate translation.[via]More editions of Works And Days, Theogony And the Shield of Heracles:
Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymnsby Hesiod , Hugh G. Evelyn-WhiteISBN 0226329666 (0-226-32966-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Works Of Hesiod And The Homeric Hymns: Works and Days, Theogony, The Homeric Hymns, The Battle of the Frogs and The Miceby HesiodISBN 0226329658 (0-226-32965-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta : Opera et Diesby M. L. West, Hesiod , Reinholdo Merkelbach, F. SolemanISBN 0198145934 (0-19-814593-4)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta : Opera et Dies'Book summary:This invaluable new edition incorporates additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition, and includes some further discoveries, recent research on the relative placing of certain papyrus fragments, and an updated index of names. [via]
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