'Deeds and Their Days'
| By: | Peter Fallon |
| Publisher: | The Gallery Press |
| Published: | October 2017 |
| Pages: | 72 |
| Categories: | Poetry |
| Language: | Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
| Available as: | Hardback, Paperback |
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Peter Fallon’s widely acclaimed translation of The Georgics of Virgil appeared in 2004. A subsequent edition was published by Oxford in its World’s Classics series. Now he turns his hand to a poem by Hesiod (c.700 bce) which was a model for Virgil’s ‘song of the earth’. In his rendition of the work commonly referred to as Works and Days the energy of his sprightly verses propels a version of man’s origins, an ancient almanac, a store of instructions for the best way to live on earth and the drama of the poet’s address to, and condemnation of, his brother, Perses. Peter Fallon’s skills as a translator have never been more clear.