Works and Days
Subtitle: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 24, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780520203839
Subjects: Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Greek Literature; Poetry; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Ancient - General; General; Business & Economics / General; Didactic poetry, Greek; Agriculture; Farm life; Translations into English
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.