C.S. Morrissey is a professor of philosophy at Trinity Western University, where he also teaches courses in the Latin language and in Greek and Roman history. He studied Greek and Latin at the University of British Columbia and has taught courses in these languages and in other classical subjects at Simon Fraser University. Morrissey specializes in philosophical theology and his recent focus has been on its genesis in the monotheistic speculations of Hesiod and Plato. He has also published on the mediaeval Latin philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his commentatorial tradition, which includes John Poinsot, a.k.a. John of St. Thomas, from whom we may trace a foundational doctrine of signs for the interdisciplinary field of semiotics. Morrissey's current research explores how Eric Voegelin's philosophical studies of the historical processes of symbolization complement the pioneering interdisciplinary work by semiotician and linguist Thomas Albert Sebeok.
Morrissey has brought fire and light to Hesiod's work, and offered
it to us with clarity and good humour, in the darkening air of our
time."
— Vallum: Contemporary Poetry (issue 10:1): 85–87.
“C.S. Morrissey places a very modern sensibility under the light of
these precious verses, and his translations remind us at every
point that Hesiod’s gods are still with us, not as subjects to be
worshipped and appeased through sacrifice, but as enduring motives
that govern and disrupt our lives.”
– Roger Scruton, from the foreword
“We may look back to Hesiod’s poetry as representative of a
cultural Golden Age when it was possible for a single work of
literature to encompass the whole of traditional ‘wisdom’: high and
low, ancient and modern, philosophical and poetic, practical and
metaphysical.”
– New Republic
“Morrissey’s version … has a gnomic quality, and we do feel as if
we are glimpsing the art of an ancient poet. … At the same time,
the book does not discount the possibility of being used for
academic purposes … this translation works effectively as a source
for the myths which is uncommonly mindful of historical
circumstances surrounding its composition, which we are at times in
danger of forgetting. … Morrissey’s diligent style and innovative
framing devices provide a new and helpful context to read and
re-read some of the great founding narratives of classical
literature.”
– Glasgow Review of Books
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