希望 A.E. Stallings 翻译的赫西俄德《工作与时日》（Work And Days）能流传数百年。https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36355637-works-and-days 它能向后人展示我们这代英语使用者对古希腊语和拉丁语的认知水平。而且由于它采用了英雄双韵体，还能让后人一窥我们的发音、音节重音……
I hope that the A.E. Stallings translation of Hesoid's "Work And Days" lasts for centuries. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36355637-works-and-days It would show the future some portion of us as English speakers knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin. And since it is in heroic couplets it will offer a window into our pronunciation, syllabic emphasis,…
Hesiod in his Works and Days (c. 700 BC) talks about the behaviour of octopuses, saying that when octopuses get hungry they will eat their own tentacles. Amazingly, Hesiod was right about this behaviour (octopuses do sometimes eat…
Homer wasn't the only person writing in the classical period. His contemporary, Hesiod, depicted gods as immortal arbiters of justice in Works and Days. The Ilyad clearly has struck some narrative gold, but was in no way the only manner in which the pantheon was portrayed.
…have placed sweat: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard. (Hesiod, Works and Days)
What myths and stories are you referring to? Hesiod’s Works and Days is opposed to exactly what you suggest. And the Myth of Eden in Judaism - the received tradition of its origin - is a commentary and the need to toil in life. Both “Athens and Jerusalem” are principled…
……似乎忽视了说教诗（didactic poetry）的悠久传统，这种诗歌通常是唱出来的，而不仅仅是朗读。按照这种理论，又该如何解释卢克莱修的《物性论》（De Rerum Natura），或者赫西俄德的《工作与时日》呢？这些都是音乐作品，是用来唱的，但它们同时也要向听众传递相当详实的客观事实。我们今天仍然会为了类似的目的使用歌曲（比如在宗教……
…seems to ignore the long tradition of didactic poetry, which was typically sung rather than simply read aloud. How would this theory account for Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, for instance, or Hesiod's Works and Days? These are musical works, intended for singing, but they are also supposed to convey fairly detailed factual information to the listener. We still use song for similar purposes today (e.g. in religious…
希望 A.E. Stallings 翻译的赫西俄德《工作与时日》（Work And Days）能流传数百年。https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36355637-works-and-days 它能向后人展示我们这代英语使用者对古希腊语和拉丁语的认知水平。而且由于它采用了英雄双韵体，还能让后人一窥我们的发音、音节重音……
I hope that the A.E. Stallings translation of Hesoid's "Work And Days" lasts for centuries. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36355637-works-and-days It would show the future some portion of us as English speakers knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin. And since it is in heroic couplets it will offer a window into our pronunciation, syllabic emphasis,…
赫西俄德在《工作与时日》（约公元前 700 年）中描述了章鱼的习性，说章鱼饿了会吃自己的触手。令人惊奇的是，赫西俄德对这种行为的描述居然是对的（章鱼有时确实会吃……
Hesiod in his Works and Days (c. 700 BC) talks about the behaviour of octopuses, saying that when octopuses get hungry they will eat their own tentacles. Amazingly, Hesiod was right about this behaviour (octopuses do sometimes eat…
荷马并不是古典时期唯一的作者。与他同时代的赫西俄德在《工作与时日》中，就将众神描绘成了永恒的正义裁决者。《伊利亚特》显然在叙事上挖掘到了宝藏，但这绝非展现诸神全貌的唯一方式。
Homer wasn't the only person writing in the classical period. His contemporary, Hesiod, depicted gods as immortal arbiters of justice in Works and Days. The Ilyad clearly has struck some narrative gold, but was in no way the only manner in which the pantheon was portrayed.
……安放了汗水：通往她的道路漫长而陡峭，起初崎岖难行；但一旦登上顶峰，虽然此前艰难，此刻却变得易于企及。（赫西俄德，《工作与时日》）
…have placed sweat: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard. (Hesiod, Works and Days)
你指的是哪些神话和故事？赫西俄德的《工作与时日》所主张的恰恰与你说的相反。而犹太教中的伊甸园神话——关于其起源的传统观点——正是对生活中辛勤劳作必要性的注解。“雅典与耶路撒冷”两者都是讲原则的……
What myths and stories are you referring to? Hesiod’s Works and Days is opposed to exactly what you suggest. And the Myth of Eden in Judaism - the received tradition of its origin - is a commentary and the need to toil in life. Both “Athens and Jerusalem” are principled…
……似乎忽视了说教诗（didactic poetry）的悠久传统，这种诗歌通常是唱出来的，而不仅仅是朗读。按照这种理论，又该如何解释卢克莱修的《物性论》（De Rerum Natura），或者赫西俄德的《工作与时日》呢？这些都是音乐作品，是用来唱的，但它们同时也要向听众传递相当详实的客观事实。我们今天仍然会为了类似的目的使用歌曲（比如在宗教……
…seems to ignore the long tradition of didactic poetry, which was typically sung rather than simply read aloud. How would this theory account for Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, for instance, or Hesiod's Works and Days? These are musical works, intended for singing, but they are also supposed to convey fairly detailed factual information to the listener. We still use song for similar purposes today (e.g. in religious…