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Полный вариант заголовка: «Les oeuvres d'Hesiode : traduction nouvelle, dediee au Roi : enrichie de notes & du combat d'Номere et d'Hesiode, opuscule grec qui n'avoit pas encore ete traduit en notre langue / par M. Gin».

"Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica" is a collection of ancient Greek writings that are attributed to Hesiod, Homer, and others whose style emulates the two. This volume translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White includes the following works: 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 the Eoiae, The Shield of Heracles, The Marriage of Ceyx, The Great Eoiae, The Melampodia, The Aegimius, Fragments of Unknown Position, and Doubtful Fragments, The Homeric Hymns, The Epigrams Of Homer, The War of the Titans, The Story of Oedipus, The Thebais, The Epigoni, The Cypria, The Aethiopis, The Little Illiad, The Sack of Illium, The Returns, The Telegony, The Expedition of Amphiaraus, The taking of Oechalia, The Phocais, The Margites, The Cercopes, The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, and The Contest Of Homer And Hesiod.

The translations are easy to read and not too difficult to comprehend, while still at the same time accurately rendered. <p> But what makes this book of keen interest is not the attention paid to Hesiods Theogony and Works & Days, nor the anonymous Homeric Hymns, but rather to its meticulous compedium of the lesser-known works it presents. Especially, for those works for which no complete version has survived, only fragments and occassional (later) commentaries. <p> In this volume you discover a wonderful epic poem called The Catalogue of Women and Eoie, of which only about half survives scattered among a hundred or so fragments. You also discover The Shield of Hercules, which some attribute to Hesiod. But most fascinating of all are the fragments of the Epic Cycle, poems written as a sort of history of the Greek people, of which the two great works by Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey) were the most well-known and the only ones to survive intact. As far as I know, this is the only volume in english which gathers all of these fragments together and attempts to sort them out in some kind of order; for those interested in the ancient epics, this alone makes the edition worth the price. <p> This book is a sobering reminder of just how much has been lost over the centuries, of just how little actually has survived. Sadly, this is now probably the closest anyone will ever get to being able to read The Cypriad or The Melampodia again, and thats a shame.

In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the poems and notes that explicate complex passages, Powell&rsquo;s fresh renditions provide an exciting introduction to the culture of the ancient Greeks.<BR /><BR /> This is the definitive translation and guide for students and readers looking to experience the poetry of Hesiod, who ranks alongside Homer as an influential poet of Greek antiquity.