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 ...

Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2, Costume Change in the Comedies of Aristophanes (Fall 2020), pp. 447-475 (29 pages) This essay offers a new reading of Olympian 14 as a civic or sacral ...

Researchers have uncovered the writings inside a medieval manuscript using a new imaging technique. The book was a copy of Greek poet Hesiod's Work and Days printed in Venice in 1537, and it has two ...

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Hesiod’s “Work and Days” by A. E. Stallings Ode to Work (287–411) 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 ...

Ancient poet, touched by the Muses themselves, so you claimed at least, with a branch of laurel, or was that just boasting? I stare at the fifteenth of your fragments of unknown position: "with the ...