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Paperback. Condition: Good. In "Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns", highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings new life to the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. Unlike most available prose renderings of their works, Hine's illuminating translations present these classics as they originally appeared, in verse. This volume includes Hesiod's "Works and Days" and "Theogony", two of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive. "Works and Days" is filled with cautionary tales and advice for managing harvests and maintaining a good work ethic. "Theogony" is the earliest comprehensive account of classical mythology - including the names and genealogies of the gods and monsters of Olympus, the sea, and the underworld. Hine captures Hesiod's gritty and persuasive voice, which provides a rare glimpse into the everyday life of ordinary people in the eighth century BCE. In contrast, the "Homeric Hymns" depict aristocratic life in voices whose polished tones reveal little of the narrators' personalities. These hymns (so named because they address the deities in short invocations at the beginning and end of each) are among the earliest examples of Greek epyllia, or short stories in the epic manner.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In "Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns", highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings new life to the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. Unlike most available prose renderings of their works, Hine's illuminating translations present these classics as they originally appeared, in verse. This volume includes Hesiod's "Works and Days" and "Theogony", two of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive. "Works and Days" is filled with cautionary tales and advice for managing harvests and maintaining a good work ethic. "Theogony" is the earliest comprehensive account of classical mythology - including the names and genealogies of the gods and monsters of Olympus, the sea, and the underworld. Hine captures Hesiod's gritty and persuasive voice, which provides a rare glimpse into the everyday life of ordinary people in the eighth century BCE. In contrast, the "Homeric Hymns" depict aristocratic life in voices whose polished tones reveal little of the narrators' personalities. These hymns (so named because they address the deities in short invocations at the beginning and end of each) are among the earliest examples of Greek epyllia, or short stories in the epic manner.…

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Atheneum, NY, 1975, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 62pp., not for resale stamp, foxed foredges, G/G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Binding tight. Pages bright and unmarked throughout. Spine straight, uncreased. Cover has some shelf wear including a couple scratches and rubbing to all edges. ; 5.5 X 0.5 X 8.25 inches; 176 pages.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. The dust jacket is torn. The page edge is tanned. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly translated in this, the first complete verse version in English. It is a delightful eroticopia of short poems by great and lesser-known Greek poets, spanning hundreds of years, from ancient times to the late Christian era. The epigrams--wry, wistful, lighthearted, libidinous, and sometimes bawdy--revel in the beauty and fickle affection of boys and young men and in the fleeting joys of older men in loving them. Some, doubtless bandied about in the lax and refined setting of banquets, are translated as limericks. Also included are a few fine and often funny poems about girls and women. Fashion changes in morality as well as in poetry. The sort of attachment that inspired these verses was considered perfectly normal and respectable for over a thousand years. Some of the very best Greek poets--including Strato of Sardis, Theocritus, and Meleager of Gadara--are to be found in these pages. The more than two hundred fifty poems range from the lovely to the playful to the ribald, but all are, as an epigram should be, polished and elegant. The Greek originals face the translations, enhancing the volume's charm. A friend of Youth, I have no youth in mind, For each has beauties, of a different kind. --Strato I've had enough to drink; my heart and soul As well as tongue are losing self-control. The lamp flame bifurcates; I multiply The dinner guests by two each time I try. Not only shaken up by the wine-waiter, I ogle too the boy who pours the water. --Strato Venus, denying Cupid is her son, Finds in Antiochus a better one. This is the boy to be enamored of, Boys, a new love superior to Love. --Meleager.…

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Clean pages except for a pencil ghost on the title page, the neat removal of the half-title preceding it, and a touch of toning starting around the edges; square, uncreased spine; soft cover bears mild toning around rear edges, one small, black speck at the lower front, gentle outward curls at corners, and small points of wear at tips, otherwise well-kept. 128pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (Stated). Very Good/Good with edgewear and chipping to Dust Jacket and no marks to text. Poetry; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (Stated). Very Good/Good with edgewear and chipping to Dust Jacket and no marks to text. Poetry; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block with remainder mark on bottom edge. Light tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Text is unmarked. Dj lightly worn, toned & sunned in a mylar cover.…