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Hints from Hesiod is an 1883 translation of Hesiod's Works and Days, along with Horace's "Praises of Rural Life," by an Officer of the United States Treasury Department. It also contains prefatory arguments, a large set of notes, and a substantial appendix.
Hesiod, a farmer and shepherd, as well as poet, dwelling upon Mount Helicon, in Greece, had been robbed of his small patrimony, through the connivance of his brother, Perses, who had succeeded in bribing the judges of the Agora, or law tribunals, of his native place.
20 mag 2008 · Hints from the Works and Days, Or, Moral, Economical and Agricultural Maxims and Reflections of ... by Hesiod, Horace , Officer of the U.S . Treasury Department
HESIOD, FRAGMENTS. HESIOD was a Greek epic poet who flourished in Boeotia in the C8th B.C. He was alongside Homer the most respected of the old Greek poets. His works included a poem titled the Theogony, a cosmological work describing the origins and genealogy of the gods, Works and Days, on the subjects of farming, morality and country life ...
Title: Hints from Hesiod: Author: Hesiod, Horace, and an Officer of the U.S. Treasury Department: Year: 1883: Publisher: Brentano Bros. Source: pdf: Progress ...
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This volume of the new Loeb Classical Library edition offers a general introduction, a fluid translation facing an improved Greek text of Hesiod's two extant poems, and a generous selection of testimonia from a wide variety of ancient sources regarding Hesiod's life, works, and reception.
