Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Around the 8th century BC, in Boeotia, a region of central Greece north of Attica, the poet Hesiod wrote Works and Days. It is not an epic about warrior heroes. It is a poem addressed to his brother Perses, accused of cheating him out of the family inheritance with the help of corrupt judges.
Hesiod mixes myth, morality and farming advice. Working the soil, respecting justice, avoiding pride: everyday life becomes poetry. With Homer, his texts lay the foundation of much of Greek mythology and Greek thought.
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- 2A poet who speaks from his field
- 3Prometheus, Pandora and the decline
- 4Dike against hubris
- 5The ancestor of poems about the land
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