Ancient Greek poet Hesiod's timeless quote emphasizes perseverance and sustained effort. Meaningful accomplishments require ...

For the gods keep hidden from men the means of life. Else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the ...

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't ...

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF OUR CONCEPT OF CHAOS? The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not ...

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From Hesiod’s “Work and Days” by A. E. Stallings Ode to Work (287–411) Bad’s had for the taking, woes galore, The road is smooth and short—She lives next door. The strait and narrow path the gods have ...

One of the two sources most commonly quoted by Socrates is Hesiod. A couple of his major works survive. One is Works and Days and the other is Theogony (meaning ‘the genealogy of the gods’). Hesiod ...