Hesiod's Cosmos (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521823920)

This study reveals the unity of Hesiod's vision of the Cosmos by reading both his poems as two complementary halves of a whole embracing the human and divine cosmos. In the Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod, roughly contemporary with Homer, does not describe the deeds of the heroes. He provides instead the earliest comprehensive account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the nature of human life that became the foundation for later Greek literature and philosophy.

Author: Jenny Strauss Clay
ISBN-10: 0521823927
ISBN-13: 9780521823920
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2003
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.48w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1879