
Episode 7: Hesiod's Lands and Seasons (Hesiod's Works and Days)
Literature and History
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The Winter Months Are Quote.
Heseid writes in one more quote from the Kimberly Johnson translation that the winter months are quote. Foul days, ox flayers, all. Beware them and the killing frosts that form when the north wind howls across the land. These warm, peaceful days, dehesiod shape human behavior. It's neither planting nor reaping time, but time for light cutting work,. Every farmer earns by means of his more vigorous labor during the springtime and autumn. The seasons come when they come as inevitable and permeating as the gods. In the next passage we'll hear about winter time.
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