Didactic poem · 1908

Works and Days

by Hesiod

Translated by A. W. Mair (1908)

A prose version of Hesiod’s poem of counsel to his brother Perses, with the tales of Prometheus, Pandora and the five ages of men, the praise of honest labour, a farmer’s and sailor’s calendar, and a list of lucky and unlucky days.

Contents · 7 parts

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