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Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles
Written by Hesiod
Narrated by Arthur Krolman
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Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy's challenge to fight. - Summary by Arthur Krolman
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Hesiod
Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet; Classical Myth; Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization; and many other books.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Decent. Narration is meh, some of the voices, particularly in part 3 (sheild of heracles) were kind of obnoxious and distracting. Listenable though