Works and Days
Subtitle: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences
Contributors: David W. Tandy (Translator); Walter C. Neale (Translator)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 24, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780520203846
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Poetry; Farm life; Business & Economics; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Business/Economics; Literature: Classics; Translations into English; Economic History; Business & Economics / General; Ancient - General; General; Sociology - General; Agriculture; Didactic poetry, Greek
First sentence: Works and Day is a Greek poem of 828 hexameter verses that was composed in the early seventh century B.C.E. by a man named Hesiod who had a special interest in matters pertaining to agriculture: when to plant what, how to manage labor resources, and above all how to achieve productive independence (autarky) and thus to avoid hunger.