Pandora
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
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The Works and Days by Hesiod
Hesiod takes on Pandora's story a second time in another poem called The Works and Days this is it's quite a hard genre to explain. It sort of combines two literary genres one which we might know a bit better than another but neither of them particularly well so the first is a poetic farming manual which I admit is itself quite an unusual combination. And the second is a long screed about his hapless brother whose name is Percy'sSo in many ways it's extra impressive that he's managed to put a farming manual in verse be annoyed about his brother and still get the story of Pandora in in a longer form than he did in the Theogony. So again Hippise just
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