Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Paperback Book in Very Good Condition.

Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. Translated and with Introduction by Dorothea Wender. Clean and bright illustrated cover, with detail from "Parnassus" by Andrea Mantegna, in the Louvre, Paris. Faint wear to extremities, rem mk on lower edge, glued binding tight, solid and square. Pages toned, very clean, no marks, no creases. Hesiod the epic poet and Theognis the elegist--together these two poets offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of archaic Greece. Hesiod's "Theogony" (c. 725 B.C. ) is a primitive creation of myth--dark forces, sex, violence, but also philosophical speculation of a high order. In contrast, "Works and Days" is a combination of agricultural advicce, moral maxims, social and political comment and superstitious lore. Theognis. the savage and suspicious author of many short elegiac poems, writing some two centuries after Hesiod, ranges from serious theological questioning to satire and personal love lyrics, and reflects the moods and themes of an aristocrstic poet who mourned a changing Greek society. 169 pages. 4.4 x 7 inches. This translastion first published 1953. Several reprints. This is the 1986 reprint of that edition. Penguin Classics, Middlesex, England.