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  • Cover: Theogony trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
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    Theogony

    The Theogony, composed by Hesiod around 700 BCE, is an early Greek epic. It describes in detail the beginnings of the cosmos, the origins and genealogies of the gods, and the events leading up to the rise of Zeus and the Olympians.

  • Cover: Metamorphoses trans. Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al. (1717)
  • Cover: Prose Edda trans. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916)
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    Prose Edda

  • Cover: Odyssey trans. Alexander Pope (1725)
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    Odyssey

    The Odyssey, traditionally said to have been composed by Homer, is an epic poem probably written around the middle of the eighth century BCE. It describes the Greek hero Odysseus’ wanderings as he journeys home from fighting in the Trojan War.

  • Cover: Poetic Edda trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1936)
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    Poetic Edda

  • Cover: Iliad trans. Alexander Pope (1720)
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    Iliad

    The Iliad, said to have been composed by Homer, is an epic poem that was probably originally put into writing during the middle of the eighth century BCE. Set during the famous Trojan War, the poem describes the events following a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon.

  • Cover: Aeneid trans. John Dryden (1697)
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