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Episode 7: Hesiod's Lands and Seasons (Hesiod's Works and Days)

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Heseid's Works and Days

Heseid's Theogony is an epic story, spectacular in its violence. It relates the rise of Zeus, the thunder god whose intelligence and ferocity led him to take the lead role in the Greek pantheon. But works and days is only one of heseids' two major poems. Try a quiz on this program to test your memory of Heseid's background and his works at literatureandhistory.com.

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