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Works and Days

By: Hesiod
Narrated by: Victor Craig
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The Works and Days is a didactic poem of some 800 lines composed by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The poem deals with daily life and work, interwoven with allegory, fable, and personal history. It also serves as a farmer's almanac, through which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts, and as a compendium of advice for life as a farmer. As such it opens a window on archaic Greek society, ethics, and superstition. The Works and Days contains two mythological etiologies for the pain and trouble of the human condition, the earliest versions of the tale of Prometheus and Pandora, and of the Ages of Man.

©2026 Public Domain (P)2020 Yashiki Audio
Classics Fantasy Fiction Literary History & Criticism Poetry Ancient Greece Magic Greece Greek Mythology Mythology Ancient History
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