Works and Days.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 21514 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 114 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251448732 |
Classic bilingual collection. After Theogony, which sings of the blossoming of divine lineages, Works and Days is the great archaic poem of the human condition. In this work of wisdom poetry, the peasant bard addresses his brother, sometimes kings, and ultimately us, mere mortals, to deliver enlightened advice and imperative prescriptions. How to make vines and wheat bear fruit (the "works"), how to find one's way through the maze of auspicious and inauspicious days (the "days")? How to interpret the concrete signs that herald the arrival of a season and its procession of tasks to be accomplished? How, finally, to live in the harsh world into which one was born? This is what Hesiod teaches men, through the verses of the oldest didactic poem preserved in Greek. Two famous myths trace the reasons for this harshness of the world since men were separated from the gods. With Pandora, the scarcity of resources and the obligation to work have settled at the heart of the mortal world; and with the lack, the necessity of justice within human communities, illustrated by the myth of races. It is the remedy for this misfortune that the poet of Works and Days strives to elucidate, between enlightened knowledge and awareness of the essential precariousness of all human effort.
Classic bilingual collection. After Theogony, which sings of the blossoming of divine lineages, Works and Days is the great archaic poem of the human condition. In this work of wisdom poetry, the peasant bard addresses his brother, sometimes kings, and ultimately us, mere mortals, to deliver enlightened advice and imperative prescriptions. How to make vines and wheat bear fruit (the "works"), how to find one's way through the maze of auspicious and inauspicious days (the "days")? How to interpret the concrete signs that herald the arrival of a season and its procession of tasks to be accomplished? How, finally, to live in the harsh world into which one was born? This is what Hesiod teaches men, through the verses of the oldest didactic poem preserved in Greek. Two famous myths trace the reasons for this harshness of the world since men were separated from the gods. With Pandora, the scarcity of resources and the obligation to work have settled at the heart of the mortal world; and with the lack, the necessity of justice within human communities, illustrated by the myth of races. It is the remedy for this misfortune that the poet of Works and Days strives to elucidate, between enlightened knowledge and awareness of the essential precariousness of all human effort.