Works and Days
Book description
'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the Year
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUNICMAN AWARD
A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet A. E. Stallings.…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Works and Days as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Stallings translates Hesiod into accessible, idiomatic English, inviting us into ruminations on how our ordinary works and days can be in the service of higher truth.
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