Works and Days

First published:
16th century
Languages: English, German, Ancient Greek, Greek, Italian, Latin
Content type: Fiction

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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.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
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Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Gods”. Retained metadata contains “Gods” in the subject metadata.
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