Hesiod & The Hesiodic Corpus
Including Theogony & Works and DaysBy Hesiod
Length5h 15m
About this audiobook
Hesiod is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. To these days three works have survived which were attributed to Hesiod by ancient commentators: Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles. Only fragments exist of other works attributed to him.
The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work. It concerns the origins of the world (cosmogony) and of the gods (theogony), beginning with Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus and Eros, and shows a special interest in genealogy.
The Works and Days is a poem of over 800 lines which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by. This work lays out the five Ages of Man, as well as containing advice and wisdom, prescribing a life of honest labour and attacking idleness and unjust judges as well as the practice of usury.
The subject of The Shield of Heracles is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly.
Contents:
Hesiod's Works and Days
The Divination by Birds
The Astronomy
The Precepts of Chiron
The Great Works
The Idaean Dactyls
The Theogony
The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae
The Shield of Heracles
The Marriage of Ceyx
The Great Eoiae
The Melampodia
The Aegimius
Fragments of Unknown Position
Doubtful Fragments
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length5 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 28, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
13THE IDAEAN DACTYLS
2General
14THE THEOGONY
3The Boeotian School
15THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
4Life of Hesiod
16THE SHIELD OF HERACLES
5The Hesiodic Poems
17THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX
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6Date of the Hesiodic Poems
18THE GREAT EOIAE
7The Contest of Homer and Hesiod
19THE MELAMPODIA
8HESIOD’S WORKS AND DAYS
20AEGIMIUS
9THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS
21FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION
10THE ASTRONOMY
22DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS
11THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON
23OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST
12THE GREAT WORKS
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