The artists Tyler Miles Lockett is doing a Hesiod read through on his discord server. I happened to have the book on hand. I've really tried to winnow down my library, but I've kept my Hesiod. Hesiod lived between 750 and 650 BCE, around the time of the Buddha. The Works and Days is a didactic poem of over 800 lines which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by. This work lays out the five Ages of Man . Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553) “Do no let a fancy-assed woman deceive your mind by guilefully cajoling you while she pokes in your granary: whoever trusts a woman, trusts swindlers.” I like that image of a woman poking around in the granary. He's not a huge fan of women, Wikipedia calls him a misogynist. He says get a woman to run your home, but not a wife, buy her. He had slaves and other workers, so he wasn't grunting out the most difficult existence...