Dedicated to the author's shiftless brother Perses, the latter part of this work in dactylic hexameter contains a series of suggestions for improving human life, such as using an agricultural calendar based on the constellations and avoiding sea journeys.
Dedicated to the author's shiftless brother Perses, the latter part of this work in dactylic hexameter contains a series of suggestions for improving human life, such as using an agricultural calendar based on the constellations and avoiding sea journeys. It contains the tale of the Five Ages of Man, in which the gods created successive races beginning with gold and silver and declining toward the present, and the well-known tale of Pandora. Composed around 700 BC, for ten points, what is this didactic poem by Hesiod?
Dedicated to the author's shiftless brother Perses, the latter part of this work in dactylic hexameter contains a series of suggestions for improving human life, such as using an agricultural calendar based on the constellations and avoiding sea journeys.
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