Tuesday, November 18, 2025

 

The Poetry of Hesiod

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), "Pericles and Aspasia," XXXII (Aspasia to Cleone), in his Complete Works, Vol. X (London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1929), p. 22:
Hesiod, who is also a Bœotian, is admirable for the purity of his life and soundness of his precepts, but there is hardly a trace of poetry in his ploughed field.

I find in all his writings but one verse worth transcribing, and that only for the melody:
In a soft meadow and on vernal flowers.1
1 Hes., Theog., 279.
The Greek:
ἐν μαλακῷ λειμῶνι καὶ ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσιν.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 7:53 AM


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