Idylls vs Theogony: Which Should You Read?

Idylls Theocritus · 1545 ★★★★☆ 3.8 113 pages · ≈ 2 h 06 m · Demanding

"This is a new annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century B.C.), the inventor of 'bucolic' or 'pastoral' poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues,…

Theogony Hesiod · 1953 ★★★★☆ 3.7 87 pages · ≈ 1 h 37 m · Demanding

Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. Includes Hesiod's "Works and Days", lines 1-201,…