SCRIPTURA

Classical Greek

Shield of Heracles · Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους

Hesiod

Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White

Heracles fights Cycnus, son of Ares, and the poem pauses for the marvels worked on his shield.

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  • Greek: ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0020.tlg003, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Hugh G. Evelyn-White, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0020.tlg003.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

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