C.S. Morrissey's brilliant translations bring a modern, lyrical
sensibility to Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod's two great poems
that paved the way for subsequent achievements in Greek philosophy.
Theogony tells of the first generations of the gods and recollects how
Zeus established his cosmic reign of justice. Works and Days examines
the two-fold role of competition in life, what Hesiod calls "the bad
strife" and "the good strife" and how they affect our struggle to
maintain order in the wake of chaos and the primeval void.