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'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the Year

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 RUNICMAN AWARD

A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet A. E. Stallings.…

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Stallings translates Hesiod into accessible, idiomatic English, inviting us into ruminations on how our ordinary works and days can be in the service of higher truth.

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