Hesiod

Athanassakis provides a readable and stimulating English version … [and] displays a good command of Hesiodic scholarship.–Echos du Monde Classique/Classical ViewsAthanassakis’s notes are informative and interesting, full of cross references to the ancient sources and comparisons to Biblical, Norse, and other sources. His anthropological interest includes and indeed highlights modern Greece … I found his translation of epithets refreshing and intriguing.–New England Classical NewsletterThe translations in themselves have the pleasing flow, sound, rhythm, and idiom of good English poetry even though … they follow the original Greek text line by line and adhere closely to its literal meaning.–Choice

Apostolos N. Athanassakis (ATHENS, GR) is professor emeritus in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he held the Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies from 2001 to 2011. Among his many translations is The Homeric Hymns.