Hesiod
Hesiod / Athanassakis, Apostolos N.![Hesiod](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/168/1683915/CHSBZCOP031683915.jpg)
Introducing his celebrated translations of these two poems and of the Shield, Apostolos Athanassakis positions Hesiod simultaneously as a philosopher-poet, a bard with deep roots in the culture of his native Boeotia, and the heir to a long tradition of Hellenic poetry.