Les Travaux et les Jours. Divers of approximately 38 works

of approximately 38 works

becoming a fervent defender of the "polychromy thesis"

“Champs/Flammarion” collection

both accessible and scholarly

These articles deal

Les Travaux et les Jours. Divers of approximately 38 worksClassic bilingual collection. After Theogony, which sings of the blossoming of divine lineages, Works and Days is the great archaic poem of the human condition. In this work of wisdom poetry, the peasant bard addresses his brother, sometimes kings, and ultimately us, mere mortals, to deliver enlightened advice and imperative prescriptions. How to make vines and wheat bear fruit (the "works"), how to find one's way through the maze of auspicious and