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Works and Days, the Glossary

Works and Days (Érga kaì Hēmérai)The Works and Days is sometimes called by the Latin translation of the title, Opera et Dies.^[1]

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A. E. Stallings

Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born July 2, 1968) is an American poet, translator, and essayist.

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Aeolis (Aiolís), or Aeolia (Aiolía), was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands (particularly Lesbos), where the Aeolian Greek city-states were located.

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Ages of Man

The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation.

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Agora

The agora (ἀγορά, romanized:, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.

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Aidos

Aidos or Aedos (Greek: Αἰδώς) was the Greek goddess of shame, modesty, respect, and humility.

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Almanac

An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. Works and Days and almanac are almanacs.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Bribery

Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty and to incline the individual to act contrary to their duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.

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Charles Abraham Elton

Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet (31 October 1778 – 1 June 1853) was an English officer in the British Army and an author.

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Chthonic

The word chthonic, or chthonian, is derived from the Ancient Greek word χθών, "khthon", meaning earth or soil.

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Cronus

In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (or, from Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky).

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Dactylic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

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Daryl Hine

William Daryl Hine (February 24, 1936 – August 20, 2012) was a Canadian poet and translator.

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Demigod

A demigod is a part-human and part-divine offspring of a deity and a human, or a human or non-human creature that is accorded divine status after death, or someone who has attained the "divine spark" (divine illumination).

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Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design.

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Elpis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Elpis (ἐλπίς) is the spirit of hope. Works and Days and Elpis (mythology) are Pandora.

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Eris (mythology)

Eris (Ἔρις Éris, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife and discord.

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Etiology

Etiology (alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination.

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Fortunate Isles

The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed (μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology.

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George Chapman

George Chapman (– 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.

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Gnomic poetry

Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory.

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Golden Age

The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity (chrýseon génos) lived.

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Greek colonisation

Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Works and Days and Greek colonisation are Greek colonization.

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Greek Heroic Age

The Greek Heroic Age, in mythology, is the period between the coming of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek warriors' return from Troy.

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Hero

A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.

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Hesiod

Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

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Human condition

The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death.

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Invocation

In Western ritual magic, invocations (from the Latin verb invocare "to call on, invoke, to give") are a field involving communicating or interacting with certain incorporeal, supernatural spirits.

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Judge

A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

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Kimberly Johnson

Kimberly Johnson (born 1971) is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.

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Labor rights

Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press.

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Muses

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Moûsai, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts.

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Nemesis

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Nemesis (Némesis) also called Rhamnousia (or Rhamnusia; the goddess of Rhamnous), was the goddess who personified retribution for the sin of hubris; arrogance before the gods.

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Oxford Classical Texts

Oxford Classical Texts (OCT), or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a series of books published by Oxford University Press.

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Pandora

In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek: Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶν, pān, i.e. "all" and δῶρον, dōron, i.e. "gift", thus "the all-endowed", "all-gifted" or "all-giving") was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus.

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Pierian Mountains

The Pierian Mountains (or commonly referred to as Piéria) are a mountain range between Imathia, Pieria and Kozani Region, south of the plain of Kambania in Central Macedonia, Greece.

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Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (possibly meaning "forethought")Smith,.

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Richmond Lattimore

Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 – February 26, 1984) was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey.

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Thebes, Greece

Thebes (Θήβα, Thíva; Θῆβαι, Thêbai.) is a city in Boeotia, Central Greece, and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

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Theogony

The Theogony (i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed. Works and Days and Theogony are 8th-century BC books, 8th-century BC poems, ancient Greek poems, Hesiod, Iron Age Greece and References on Greek mythology.

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Thomas Cooke (1703 – 29 December 1756), often called "Hesiod" Cooke, was a very active English translator and author who ran afoul of Alexander Pope and was mentioned as one of the "dunces" in Pope's Dunciad. His father was an innkeeper.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_and_Days

Also known as Opera Et Dies, Perses (brother of Hesiod).

Works and Days, the Glossary

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See also

7th-century BC books

8th-century BC books

8th-century BC poems

Greek colonization

Hesiod

Iron Age Greece

Pandora

Prometheus

References on Greek mythology

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