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Works and Days & Theogony

Hesiod

Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)

Hesiod (fl. c. 700 BC) is, with Homer, one of the two earliest Greek poets, and his two surviving complete poems shaped Greek religious and moral thought. The Theogony is the great genealogy of the gods, narrating the origin of the cosmos from Chaos and the rise of Zeus to supremacy; the Works and Days is a didactic poem addressed to his brother Perses, mixing moral exhortation, the myths of Prometheus and Pandora and of the Five Ages of Man, and a practical farmer's almanac. This is Hugh G. Evelyn-White's prose translation of 1914.

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Contents

1. Works and Days
2. Theogony