Book · 700 BC · Fiction

Theogony and Works and Days

Name: Theogony and Works and Days
Author: Hesiod

Oxford University Press · 79 pages

★ 7.2 editorial score

Chaos comes first, then gods who overthrow their fathers in turn until Zeus wins and holds. Hesiod then turns to his idle brother to explain when to plow and why work is holy.

Genre

Mythology

Medium

Poetry

Subject

God Origin of the world Farming

Setting

Greece

Time

700 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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