The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony and Works and Days. Though attributed to him in antiquity, the Catalogue of Women and The Shield were likely not composed by Hesiod himself. Glenn W. Most has thoroughly revised his edition to take account of the textual and interpretive scholarship that has appeared since its initial publication.
This eleventh and final volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s complete edition of Hippocrates contains Diseases of Women 1 and 2, focusing on reproductive life, the pathological conditions affecting the reproductive organs, and their proper terminology and recommended treatments. A lexicon of therapeutic agents is included.
