{"product_id":"works-and-days-isbn-9780141197524","title":"Works and Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new verse translation by award-winning poet Alicia Stallings of one of the foundational works of ancient Greece\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTLS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018, selected by Rachel Hadas and Emily Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a singing contest and that after his dead body was thrown to sea, it was brought back by dolphins. His \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important early works of Greek poetry. Ostensibly written by the poet to chide his lazy brother, it recounts the story of Pandora’s box and humanity’s decline since the Golden Age, and can be read as a celebration of rural life and a hymn to work. Alicia Stallings’s new translation breathes new life into Hesiod’s work, rendering its vivid poetry for a new generation of classics readers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed. Toil; corruption in high places; injustice; the prevailing sense that things are getting worse - none of these prevents the Muses' chosen poets from doing their indispensable and soul-refreshing work.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rachel Hadas, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Hesiod was the first self-declared poet of Ancient Greece, who boasted of having won a three-legged cauldron for his verses. A. E. Stallings brings him back to life in her rhyming translation of Works and Days, which mingles farming tips, myths and evocation of the seasons: 'when first the cuckoo cuckoos in the oak.' Stallings’s lively  and learned notes make it a treat.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“A. E. Stallings new verse translation of Works and Days for Penguin is a splendid development upon a recent flurry of Hesiod translation and poetic response ... Brilliantly sensitive ... Stallings's translation triumphs.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Oxonian Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Mixing rhyme and assonance, this is a Works and Days for the age of rap. By translating Hesiod as poetry, Stallings encourages us to realize that the poem should not just be the object of scholarly study, but can be read aloud for fun.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eArmand D'Angour,\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eHesiod\u003c\/b\u003e, a contemporary of Homer, probably lived in the eighth century in Boeotia on the Greek mainland. He is often considered to be the author of both the \u003ci\u003eTheogony\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e, although this has been debated.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlicia Stallings\u003c\/b\u003e is an American poet and translator. She has published three books of original verse, \u003ci\u003eArchaic Smile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHapax\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOlives\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her verse translation of Lucretius’s \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is published by Penguin Classics.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304291127525,"sku":"NP9780141197524","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141197524.jpg?v=1767744538","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/works-and-days-isbn-9780141197524","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}