About the Author

Apostolos N. Athanassakis holds the James and Sarah Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his many translations is Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Reviews

More than any other translation, this one makes these ancient poems seem familiar without eroding our sense of them as profoundly archaic and foreign. Parnassus: Poetry in Review