The Shield of Heracles Full Audiobook with Text, Illustrations

AudioBooks Dimension present The Shield of Heracles (Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους) full audiobook with text, illustrationsShow more

Author : Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος)
Written : 700 BCE
Place of Origin : Ancient Greece
Original Media type : Papyrus
Original Language : Ancient Greek
Translator : Hugh G. Evelyn White
Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Epic, Fiction, Greek Mythology
Reader : Arthur Krolman
Editor : @AudioBooksDimension
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The Shield of Heracles (The Shield of Herakles, Aspis Herakleous, Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους) is a poem of 480 hexameter lines written by an unknown Greek poet in the style of Hesiod (lived 8th century BCE). It deals with the Greek hero Herakles (also known as Hercules) and his nephew Iolaus and their battle with Cycnus, son of the war-god Ares. It is unclear when the action of the poem takes place in the story of Heracles' life in myth and legend, but in the story Heracles and Iolaus are on their way to the city of Trachis (where Heracles and his second wife Deinara lived toward the end of their lives, but no mention is made of her or of any other events in the hero's life besides his birth) when they meet Cycnus and Ares.

The poem was thought to be an original work by Hesiod but was already suspect as the work of another by around the 3rd century BCE. Some modern-day sources continue to attribute the work to Hesiod even though by now it has long been established as the work of another writing in Hesiod's style. The poem borrows heavily from Homer's Iliad, chapter 18, in which he describes the shield of Achilles. The author of The Shield of Heracles took some lines directly from Iliad and only modified others, but the majority of the poem is an original work. It was very popular in Greece, particularly Athens, in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, and the story inspired representations in art on vases and drinking vessels.

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