. The eastern nations and Greece. 1 During the last twenty years the opinion has been growing that each poem, practi-cally in its entirety, is the work of a single Fig. 132. Homer Ideal portrait of the Hellenistic Age 304 GREEK LITERATURE [§337 337. Hesiod. Hesiod, a Boeotian, who is believed to have livedtowards the close of the eighth century , was the poet of natureand of real life, especially of peasant life, in the dim transition age ofHellas (sect. 152). The Homeric bards sang of the deeds of heroes,and of a far-away time when gods mingled with men. Hesiod singsof common men,
. The eastern nations and Greece. 1 During the last twenty years the opinion has been growing that each poem, practi-cally in its entirety, is the work of a single Fig. 132. Homer Ideal portrait of the Hellenistic Age 304 GREEK LITERATURE [§337 337. Hesiod. Hesiod, a Boeotian, who is believed to have livedtowards the close of the eighth century , was the poet of natureand of real life, especially of peasant life, in the dim transition age ofHellas (sect. 152). The Homeric bards sang of the deeds of heroes,and of a far-away time when gods mingled with men. Hesiod singsof common men, and of everyday, present duties. His greatest poem,a didactic epic, is entitled Works and Days. This is, in the main, asort of farmers calendar, in which the poet points out to the husband-mai;i the lucky and unlucky days for doing certain kinds of work, giveshim minute instructions respecting farm labor, discourses on justice
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