Bad’s had for the taking, woes galore, The road is smooth and short—She lives next door. The strait and narrow path the gods have set To Virtue is steep and long and paved with sweat. It’s hard going ...

For the gods keep hidden from men the means of life. Else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the ...

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One of the two sources most commonly quoted by Socrates is Hesiod. A couple of his major works survive. One is Works and Days and the other is Theogony (meaning ‘the genealogy of the gods’). Hesiod ...

This article analyzes the third section of the agricultural portion of Hesiod's "Works and Days". It argues that this section has little to do with a succession of seasonal tasks or with drudgery ...

Natalie stands up for the prize-winning Greek poet, cataloguer of gods and author of a flatpack wagon manual, Hesiod. She's joined by Professor Edith Hall and poet Alicia Stallings. Hesiod is highly ...

Hesiod's Works and Days is one of the first poems in the canon of Western literature and the poet was highly respected in Ancient Greece. The eight century poem runs to a mere 30 pages in AE Stallings ...

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF OUR CONCEPT OF CHAOS? The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not ...