Here are the farmer’s calendar of The Works and Days, with its five ages of man and its counsel on ploughing, sailing and marriage; the Theogony, which tells how Chaos, Earth, the Titans and Zeus came to be; and the Shield of Hercules. Charles Abraham Elton renders them in English rhyme and blank verse, with a long dissertation on Hesiod’s life and copious notes.
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