Hesiod's Works and Days

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Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.

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instanceOf ancient Greek poem
didactic poem
addresses Perses
attributedTo Hesiod of Ascra
linked to: Hesiod
author Hesiod
centralTheme agricultural labor
divine retribution
hard work
human suffering
justice
moral instruction
containsMyth Ages of Man
Myth of Pandora
Myth of Prometheus
linked to: Prometheus
countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
dateWritten 7th century BCE
focusesOn peasant farmer’s life
genre didactic poetry
wisdom literature
givesAdviceOn agriculture
household management
religious observance
seafaring
seasonal work
hasApproximateLength about 800 lines
includesSection Ages of Man
catalogue of days
farming calendar
mythological proem
myths of Prometheus and Pandora
influenced Greek ethical thought
Hellenistic poetry
Roman didactic poetry
language Ancient Greek
literaryDevice gnomic sayings
proverbial expressions
literaryForm hexameter poem
literaryTradition Greek didactic tradition
metre dactylic hexameter
moralStance condemnation of injustice
critique of corrupt judges
praise of honest labor
narrativeFrame poet addressing his brother Perses
partOf Hesiodic corpus
linked to: Works of Hesiod
period Archaic Greece
philosophicalConcept Dike (justice) as divine order
Erga (works) as human duty
preservedIn medieval manuscript tradition
relatedWork Theogony
linked to: Hesiod's Theogony
setting Boeotia

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Zeus appearsIn Hesiod's Works and Days
Hesiod's Theogony relatedWork Hesiod's Works and Days
Ancient Greek religion hasSacredText Hesiod’s Works and Days
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Epimetheus literarySource Hesiod’s "Works and Days"
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Gaia mentionedIn Works and Days by Hesiod
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Titans mentionedIn Works and Days
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Hesiod notableWork Works and Days
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Hades appearsIn Works and Days
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Hesiodic Catalogue of Women relatedWork Works and Days
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Alcmene mentionedIn Works and Days by Hesiod
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Oceanids mentionedIn Works and Days
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Society and Solitude containsEssay Works and Days
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Pandora sourceText Hesiod's Works and Days
Works of Hesiod hasPart Works and Days
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Iasion mentionedIn Works and Days by Hesiod
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Mount Helicon mentionedIn Works and Days
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Olympian gods mainSourceTexts Hesiod’s Works and Days
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Golden Age describedIn Works and Days
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Shield of Heracles relatedWork Works and Days
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Greek mythology hasSource Hesiod's Works and Days
Cerberus mentionedIn Works and Days by Hesiod
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Charon mentionedIn Works and Days
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Heroic Age describedIn Works and Days
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Ages of Man describedIn Works and Days
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Ages of Man primarySource Hesiod's Works and Days, lines 106–201
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Dike (justice) as divine order mentionedIn Hesiod's Works and Days
Myth of Pandora earliestExtendedSource Hesiod’s Works and Days
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Ehoiai relatedWork Works and Days
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Catalogue of Women associatedWork Works and Days
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Dike appearsIn Hesiod's Works and Days
Rhadamanthus sourceText Works and Days by Hesiod
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Ascra mentionedIn Works and Days
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Georgics influencedBy Works and Days
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Melampodia relatedWork Works and Days
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Nereus appearsIn Works and Days
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Helikon mentionedIn Hesiod’s Works and Days
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Plutus mentionedIn Works and Days
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Michael Field notableWork Works and Days
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Classical Greek literature majorWork Works and Days
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