Works+and+Days+(Hesiod)

Who: Hesiod What: One of the oldest works of literature to survive from Greece and details what the author details how a man should live his life. Focused on themes such as hard work and idleness, generosity and caution, justice and corruption and temperance and excess. When; Composed around 700 BCE Where: Around Central Greece Why: Works and Days presents a fine account of the Greek culture back in that time period. Also one of the first readings that reference the myth of Pandora. Outlines the way a man should live back in their culture.