The complete online text of Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod.

The Greek poet Hesiod (active ca. 700 BC) was the first didactic poet in Europe and the first author of mainland Greece whose works are extant. His influence on later literature was basic and far-reaching. The facts about Hesiod are shrouded in myth and...

It was a Boeotian peasant of the eighth century B.C. who wrote the earliest surviving systematic account of the gods of the Greeks -- the Theogony -- as well as the only surviving archaic Greek poem on farming -- the Works and Days. This is the received...

Connections between the oldest surviving Greek literature and ancient Mesopotamian texts are a fascinating but difficult field of study, where the borders between the highly plausible, the possible, and the improbable are not clearly defined. The most successful work so far has been...

Out of the Shadows: New Translations of the Homeric Hymns Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, M.A. Harvard University Press 1982. 657 pp. Out of print. Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. Translated by Daryl Hine....