"For his Helen the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous and faithful Helen never went to Troy but spent the war years in Egypt, falsely blamed for the actions of her divinely created double in Troy. Volume V also includes Phoenician Women, Euripides' treatment of the battle between the sons of Oedipus for control of Thebes (the story told by Aeschylus in Seven against Thebes); and Orestes, a novel retelling of Orestes' lot after...

"This volume, which completes the new Loeb Classical Library edition of Hesiod, contains The Shield and extant fragments of other poems, including the Catalog of Women, that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest. The Catalog of Women is a systematic presentation in five books of a large number of Greek legendary heroes and episodes, organized...