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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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Works and Days 7
Works and Days by Hesiod 3
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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Hades → appearsIn → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days
Zeus → appearsIn → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
Society and Solitude → containsEssay → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days
Works of Hesiod → hasPart → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days
Ancient Greek religion → hasSacredText → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hesiod’s Works and Days
Epimetheus → literarySource → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hesiod’s "Works and Days"
Alcmene → mentionedIn → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days by Hesiod
Gaia → mentionedIn → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days by Hesiod
Iasion → mentionedIn → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days by Hesiod
Oceanids → mentionedIn → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days
Titans → mentionedIn → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days
Hesiod → notableWork → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days
Hesiod's Theogony → relatedWork → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women → relatedWork → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
this entity surface form: Works and Days
Pandora → sourceText → Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ