Poet (fl. 700 BC — fl. 700 BC)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jenny Strauss Clay. Hesiod's Cosmos. Cambridge University Press. 2003. 214pp.

G. Patrick Edwards. The Language of Hesiod in Its Traditional Context. Basil Blackwell. 1971. 248pp.

Richard Gotshalk. Homer and Hesiod: Myth and Philosophy. University Press of America. 2000. 373pp.

Richard Hunter (editor). The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions. Cambridge University Press. 2005. 349pp.

Richard Janko. Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction. Cambridge University Press. 2007. 340pp.

Robert Lamberton. Hesiod. Yale University Press. 1988. 172pp.

Stephanie Nelson. God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil. Oxford University Press. 1998. 252pp.

Charles Penglase. Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod. Routledge. 1994. 278pp.

Pietro Pucci. Hesiod and the Language of Poetry. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1977. 152pp.

Friedrich Solmsen. Hesiod and Aeschylus. Cornell University Press. 1949. 230pp.

Kathryn Stoddard. The Narrative Voice in the Theogony of Hesiod. E. J. Brill. 2004. 206pp.

Peter Walcot. Hesiod and the Near East. Wales University Press. 1966. 154pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.705)

6. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.117)

7. Greek and Latin Authors 800BC-1000AD (pp.199-202)

8. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.470)

9. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.235)

10. Who's Who in the Greek World (p.121)

11. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.244)

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