Hesiod's Works and Days

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ancient Greek poem didactic poem

Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.

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Label	Occurrences
Works and Days	22
Hesiod's Works and Days canonical	6
Works and Days by Hesiod	5
Hesiod’s Works and Days	4
Hesiod's Works and Days, lines 106–201	1
Hesiod’s "Works and Days"	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek poem ⓘ didactic poem ⓘ
addresses	Perses ⓘ
attributedTo	Hesiod ⓘ surface form: Hesiod of Ascra
author	Hesiod ⓘ
centralTheme	agricultural labor ⓘ divine retribution ⓘ hard work ⓘ human suffering ⓘ justice ⓘ moral instruction ⓘ
containsMyth	Ages of Man ⓘ Myth of Pandora ⓘ Prometheus ⓘ surface form: Myth of Prometheus
countryOfOrigin	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
dateWritten	7th century BCE ⓘ
focusesOn	peasant farmer’s life ⓘ
genre	didactic poetry ⓘ wisdom literature ⓘ
givesAdviceOn	agriculture ⓘ household management ⓘ religious observance ⓘ seafaring ⓘ seasonal work ⓘ
hasApproximateLength	about 800 lines ⓘ
includesSection	Ages of Man ⓘ catalogue of days ⓘ farming calendar ⓘ mythological proem ⓘ myths of Prometheus and Pandora ⓘ
influenced	Greek ethical thought ⓘ Hellenistic poetry ⓘ Roman didactic poetry ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryDevice	gnomic sayings ⓘ proverbial expressions ⓘ
literaryForm	hexameter poem ⓘ
literaryTradition	Greek didactic tradition ⓘ
metre	dactylic hexameter ⓘ
moralStance	condemnation of injustice ⓘ critique of corrupt judges ⓘ praise of honest labor ⓘ
narrativeFrame	poet addressing his brother Perses ⓘ
partOf	Works of Hesiod ⓘ surface form: Hesiodic corpus
period	Archaic Greece ⓘ
philosophicalConcept	Dike (justice) as divine order ⓘ Erga (works) as human duty ⓘ
preservedIn	medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ
relatedWork	Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ surface form: Theogony
setting	Boeotia ⓘ

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