This book, out of print for many years, has long been recognized as the standard work on Hesiod's influence on other Athenian poets, particularly Aeschylus.
"Solmsen has attempted . . . to answer two questions: what was original in Hesiod's poems (as distinct from the mass of traditional myth and religious beliefs incorporated in them) and what Solon and Aeschylus derived from him. The author examines the Prometheia and the Eumenides at length, and he devotes a chapter to Solon. It is an important book."--Greece and Rome
