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Works and Days

16 chapters · complete text

Contents

Invocation to Zeus
The Two Strifes
Prometheus and Pandora
The Five Ages: Golden Age
The Silver Age
The Bronze Age and the Age of Heroes
The Iron Age
The Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale
Justice and the Ways of Mortals
The Path of Work and Righteousness
The Farmer's Year — Pleiades to Ploughing
Winter — The Month of Lenaeon
Spring and Summer Work
Seafaring
Marriage, Taboos, and the Sacred Calendar
The Days — The Lucky and Unlucky Days

Begin reading — Invocation to Zeus

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