The clash of the sexes in Hesiod'sWorks and Days

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Request Permissions : Click hereDownloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/GAR, IP address: 169.230.243.252 on 17 Mar 2015 from the Allen and Monroe OCT editions (Oxford, 1963). All translations are my own. 'Hesiod' denotes both the persona of the poet of the Theogony and the Works and Days, and the consistent driving force which I believe lies behind the poems. Whether or not these were one and the same does not concern me hereissues such as authorship, performance context, or orality versus writing are necessarily beyond the scope of the present article.3 Pre-Pandora: ῥηιδίως γάρ κɛν καὶ ἐπ᾽ ἤματι ἐργάσσαιο| ὥστέ σɛ κɛἰς ἐνιαυτὸν ἔχɛιν καὶ ἀɛργὸν ἐόντα· ('for easily you would have worked even in one day enough that you would have had sufficient for a year though being idle'; Op. 43-4); Golden Age: καρπὸν δ᾽ ἔφɛρɛ ζɛίδωρος ἄρουρα| αὐτομάτη πολλόν τɛ καὶ ἄφθονον· ('the grain-giving earth produced fruit of its own accord, abundant and unbegrudged'; Op. 117-18). 4 βίος (livelihood) at Op. 31,42, 232, 316, 501, 577, 601, 634, 689 (similarly, βίοτος at Op. 167, 301, 307, 400, 476, 499). The Heroes knew agriculture too: but with the land bearing them three harvests a year (τοῖσιν μɛλιηδέα καρπόν | τρὶς ἔτɛος θάλλοντα φέρɛι ζɛίδωρος ἄρουρα, 'for whom the grain-giving earth bears honey-sweet fruit flourishing three times a year'; Op. 172-3) they hardly match the Iron Race in terms of toil.

Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice

“…The allusion to faithful wives as one of the rewards of justice serves as an unfortunate reminder of the thoroughly male-centric view of WD, and it hints at its author's sexism, which is more fully on display in passages discussing Pandora . For a helpful discussion of the sexes in WD, see Canevaro (2013). 23 Thus, Clay (2003, 41): 'The point of this rhetorical ploy is to suggest to Perses that not only must he behave justly, but that he has a positive stake in the righteousness of the kings as well as of the commoners. '…”

THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'STHEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OFKLEOS

“…See also Pucci (1977), 85f., on similarities between Pandora and Prometheus' 'cryptic gift' to Zeus, and, on Pandora, Zeitlin (1995) and Fraser (2011). 27. Fraser (2011); see also Canevaro (2013) on the gendered strife that characterizes the Iron Age, necessitating the self-sufficiency prescribed by the Works and Days.…”

“…27.Fraser (2011); see also Canevaro (2013) on the gendered strife that characterizes the Iron Age, necessitating the self-sufficiency prescribed by the Works and Days .…”

“…Mordine (2006), 376-80, who suggests that the ainos of the hawk and nightingale in Works and Days takes the place of Zeus's punishment of Prometheus in the Theogony . On the different emphasis given to Prometheus versus Pandora as reflective of the unique focus of each poem (gods in the one, humans in the other), see Canevaro (2013), 187f., and Canevaro (2015), 108f.…”