Ebook: Theogony / Works and Days

Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Translator's Note; Part Divine: Hesiod's Theogony; Introduction: The Hymns of the Muses; Chapter 1: Castration (The Succession Myth, Part 1); Chapter 2: A Night of Monsters (Aphrodite's Flood of Genealogy Begins); Chapter 3: Styx and Hecate (Aphrodite's Flood of Genealogy Ends); Chapter 4: Stealing Thunder (The Succession Myth, Part 2); Chapter 5: Sacrifice; or, The Counterparts; Chapter 6: Battle of the Titans (The Succession Myth, Part 3); Chapter 7: Underworld.;Adapts Hesiod's two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements of Greek philosophy, most notably of Plato.