Hesiod

Works and Days (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Stallings, A. E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the Year

A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings.

Hesiod was the first self-styled 'poet' in western literature, revered by the ancient Greeks. Ostensibly written to chide and educate his lazy brother, Works and Days tells the story of Pandora's jar and humanity's place in a fallen world. Blending the cosmic and the earthy, and mixing myth, lyrical description, personal asides, astronomy, proverbs and down-to-earth advice on rural tasks and rituals, it is also a hymn to honest toil as man's salvation. This vibrant new verse translation by award-winning poet A. E. Stallings conveys the clarity and unexpected humour of a founding work of classical literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141970660
• Artikelnr.: 46778065

Autorenporträt

Hesiod

Rezensionen

Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed. Toil; corruption in high places; injustice; the prevailing sense that things are getting worse - none of these prevents the Muses' chosen poets from doing their indispensable and soul-refreshing work Rachel Hadas The Times Literary Supplement