Hesiod — Works and Days
← all texts · Greek · c. 700 BCE
What this is
Hesiod's farmer's almanac and moral poem — Prometheus, Pandora, the Five Ages of Man (Gold to Iron), and hard-won wisdom on justice and labor. Bundled with the Theogony in the Gutenberg edition.
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What to read alongside it, and why.
Hesiod — Theogony
Greek
Its companion poem — the cosmology that frames this moral teaching.