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Works and Days, the Theogony and the Shield

Hesiod · Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914

Hesiod

Works and Days, the Theogony and the Shield

Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914

What this is

The two poems the Greeks set beside Homer: the Works and Days, a farmer’s advice to his feckless brother Perses on work, justice and the seasons, and the Theogony, the birth of the gods from Chaos to the reign of Zeus. The Shield of Heracles, long attributed to him, follows.

How it is set

One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.

What is not here

Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.

The two parts

  1. 1 Works and Days 83 sections
  2. 2 The Theogony 88 sections
  3. 3 The Shield of Heracles 37 sections
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Text: Hesiod, Works and Days, the Theogony and the Shield — Hugh G. Evelyn-White’s translation for the Loeb Classical Library, 1914, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 348. His line numbers head each passage; his footnotes, and the fragments and Homeric Hymns printed in the same volume, are not included. The Shield was doubted as Hesiod’s even in antiquity; it is printed because it came down with his poems.