The Shield of Heracles by Hesiod

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/78673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shield of Heracles Author: Hesiod Narrator: Peter Coates Format: mp3 Length: 33 mins Release date: 04-23-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: The Shield of Heracles is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. It has been suggested that this epic may reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War (595–585 BCE): in the epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians.