This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... the goddesses who have borne children to mortal fathers (ver. 963). Finally, our manuscript text ends (vers. 1021-1022) with the mere prologue for still another catalogue now lost: --bidding the Muses "Sing of the race of women!" Those mortal women who had borne children to divine fathers are undoubtedly meant. Indeed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... the goddesses who have borne children to mortal fathers (ver. 963). Finally, our manuscript text ends (vers. 1021-1022) with the mere prologue for still another catalogue now lost: --bidding the Muses "Sing of the race of women!" Those mortal women who had borne children to divine fathers are undoubtedly meant. Indeed of this poem, as of others from the great Hesiodic school, many tantalizing fragments yet remain. The great poetic fault in the Theogony is its feeble perspective and extreme lack of proportion. We have mentioned, for instance, the passage (vers. 349-361) in which fifty nymphs are swiftly catalogued by name. To pass from this to the large vague outlines of Titanic strife is like changing suddenly a microscope for a telescope. Even in the very midst of such a rapid list, we are detained, at the mention of Hecate, while a hymn of forty lines is devoted to her alone! This may well be an interpolation, but it shares fully the interest of the rest. Indeed the value of the Theogony is not chiefly as a single work of art, nor even as literature at all. Crude, contradictory, perhaps the creation of various hands and generations, it is worthy of study as an early attempt to project our human intellect into that dark backward and abysmal mystery which still excites and baffles alike the imagination of the savage, the child, and the philosopher. The special student of Greek literature is struck, furthermore, with the influence exerted by the Hesiodic myths throughout the Prometheus of Aeschylos. Indeed that great trilogy may well have been planned in great part as a protest against the crude and ignoble theology of Hesiod. To this theme we may hope to return. We have just noticed the strange fashion in which our manuscripts of the Hesiodic Theo...
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Very Good with no dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Some foxing.; Contents: Epic Cycle; Works and Days; Hesiodic Theogony, Shield of Heracles; Homeric Hymns; Homeric Hymn to Apollo; Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Hexameter in the Hands of the Philosophers.; 201 pages.
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Good. No Jacket. Original brown cloth, pp.201 + 14pp publishers adverts at rear. Cloth a little dusty but sound, although spine titles have faded out. Contents clean and tight, although hinge pulled at rear endpaper and at one point in text, binding remains tight. Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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