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The ancient Greek poet Hesiod lived around the same time as Homer. He is considered to be an economist and also wrote works on mythology, ancient time-keeping, and farming techniques. The Hesiod Collection includes The Shield of Heracles, Theogony (the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods), and Works and Days (a farmer’s almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the art of agriculture).

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Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks Ancient Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Classics Collections Europe Greece Mythology Ancient Greece Greek Mythology
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Andrea Giordani reads everything zi’ve purchased from Audible in a totally wooden and disinterested manner, not in the least assisted by a broad South African accent which makes her readings sound actually hostile to an English listener.
So far, so bad, but a relatively short period elapses in the reading of one of the seminal texts in the whole of western literature, before we encounter repeated stumbles and gabbled attempts to make sense of lines that Giordani clearly doesn’t understand.
I can’t blame Giordani for this when it’s so obviously the responsibility of an editor to cut these stumbles out: all but the best educated and most fluent readers make them and a wise producer would, firstly, not have chosen her to read this text, and, secondly, to have proof-read the production; and it is a mark of how little some agents of Audible care for the quality of what they submit for sale, that they are lazy or indifferent enough to expect us to pay for and put up with their shoddy work.
This is a short book and I think that it would be better to buy it; then, at least, you might get a commentary for it as well.

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