700 BC · Skopia

Showing 55 works across all media from the 700 BC

The Odyssey

700 BC · 592 pages

Ten years of storms, monsters, and a goddess who will not let him go stand between a soldier and his own front door. Every adventure story since descends from Odysseus.

★ 9.9

Poem · Epic poem

All men have need of the Gods.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 8.3

Poem · Epic poem

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 8.2

Poem · Epic poem

Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 8.2

Poem · Epic poem

Of all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 8.1

Poem · Didactic poem

Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 7.6

Fiction · Mythology

Theogony and Works and Days

Hesiod

700 BC · 79 pages

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.

★ 7.2

Poem · Epic poem

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 5.7

Poem · Epic poem

Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 5.0

Poem · Epic poem