{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0020.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0020.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg002.local001","title":"Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι","titleGreek":"Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι","alternateTitles":["Works and Days","Les Travaux et les Jours","Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι"],"author":"Hesiod","authorityName":"HESIODUS Epic.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0020-hesiodus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0020-hesiodus/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1914","volume":null,"series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/page/n55/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"μοῦσαι Πιερίηθεν ἀοιδῇσιν κλείουσαι δεῦτε, Δίʼ ἐννέπετε, σφέτερον πατέρʼ ὑμνείουσαι· ὅντε διὰ βροτοὶ ἄνδρες ὁμῶς ἄφατοί τε φατοί τε, ῥητοί τʼ ἄρρητοί τε Διὸς μεγάλοιο ἕκητι. ῥέα μὲν γὰρ βριάει, ῥέα δὲ βριάοντα χαλέπτει, ῥεῖα δʼ ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τʼ ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει Ζεὺς ὑψιβρεμέτης, ὃς ὑπέρτατα δώματα ναίει. κλῦθι ἰδὼν ἀίων τε, δίκῃ δʼ ἴθυνε θέμιστας τύνη· ἐγὼ δέ κε, Πέρση, ἐτήτυμα μυθησαίμην. οὐκ ἄρα μοῦνον ἔην Ἐρίδων γένος, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ γαῖαν εἰσὶ δύω· τὴν μέν κεν ἐπαινέσσειε νοήσας, ἣ δʼ ἐπιμωμητή· διὰ δʼ ἄνδιχα θυμὸν ἔχουσιν. ἣ μὲν γὰρ πόλεμόν τε κακὸν καὶ δῆριν ὀφέλλει, σχετλίη· οὔτις τήν γε φιλεῖ βροτός, ἀλλʼ ὑπʼ ἀνάγκης ἀθανάτων βουλῇσιν Ἔριν τιμῶσι βαρεῖαν. τὴν δʼ ἑτέρην προτέρην μὲν ἐγείνατο Νὺξ ἐρεβεννή, θῆκε δέ μιν Κρονίδης ὑψίζυγος, αἰθέρι ναίων, γαίης ἐν ῥίζῃσι, καὶ ἀνδράσι πολλὸν ἀμείνω· ἥτε καὶ ἀπάλαμόν περ ὁμῶς ἐπὶ ἔργον ἔγειρεν.…","divisions":[{"label":"Section 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0020.tlg002.local001/1-section-1/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0020.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0020.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0020/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}