It also underscores the value of Hesiod, who achieves just such a result in the
Theogony.
Similarly, at the sight of Pandora in the
Theogony, "amazement held immortal gods and mortal men" (588) and, in the Works and Days, Epimetheus cannot resist accepting her as a present from Zeus (85-89).
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Theogony 886).
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For instance, Homer's poetry conveys to the reader the ethics of living; Hesiod's "
Theogony" helps the reader to know the world; Greek tragedy teaches the reader to abide by the ethical order and moral codes.
His verse translations include the Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme (University of California Press, 1994), and, with Catherine Schlegel, Hesiod's
Theogony and Works and Days (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Nagy explains in his introduction that writings under consideration include selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey,
Theogony, and Works and Days, selected songs of Sappho and Pindar, and other works--all of which are available online for free as Sourcebook of Original Greet Texts Translated into English.
among others Hesiod's
Theogony and Works and Days, Homer's Iliad, Aesop's Fables, Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca.
If Eros is supposed to symbolize the life instinct (as in Freudian theory), it is significant that Hesiod's
Theogony associates his birth with that of "dim Tartarus," in other words, the realm of death.
The mythological material unfolds like Hesiod's
Theogony and the Book of Matthew, moving in direct descent from progenitor to progeny, with occasional detours along the way.
He did this by including elements of Greek cosmogony (creation of the world),
theogony (anthropomorphized gods with specific characteristics), Hesiodic didacticism (deterioration of humanity through greed and lust for power), and epic unification around a single theme (Alberich's theft of the gold).
(3) Hesiod,
Theogony 30-35, in Hesiod:
Theogony, Works and Days; Theognis: Elegies, trans, by Dorothea Wender (London: Penguin, 1973).
