Works and Days

Hesiod's poem of advice to his brother Perses after a lawsuit over their inheritance, containing the two Strifes, Prometheus and Pandora, the five ages of man, the fable of the hawk and the nightingale, the praise of justice, a farmer's and sailor's calendar, and the lucky and unlucky days; it also holds the only facts about Hesiod's life. Read in Evelyn-White's translation.