Didactic poem · 1914

Works and Days

by Hesiod

Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)

Hesiod’s poem of advice to his idle brother Perses, mixing the myths of Pandora and the Five Ages with farming lore, moral counsel and a calendar of lucky and unlucky days.

Contents · 7 parts

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