Early Greek poet traditionally credited with Works and Days and the Theogony, foundational texts for Greek myth and moral instruction. Works and Days blends practical counsel on labor and seasons with a moral vision of justice, fate, and human limits.
Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Reading), Thoreau (see Thoreau's Reading) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)
1 title in the Cabinet
Full title: The works of Hesiod
The Dial's edition: 1740
An English verse translation gathering Hesiod's foundational didactic poems (cosmogony, divine genealogy, and agrarian ethics), presenting archaic Greek theology and moral labor-wisdom for eighteenth-century readers.
