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Hesiod - Theogony Works and Days
Hesiod

Number of quotes: 9


Book ID: 108 Page: 3

Section: 4B

From the Muses of Helicon let us begin our singing, that haunt Helicon’s great and holy mountain, and dance on their soft feet round the violet-dark spring and the altar of the mighty son of Kronos.

Quote ID: 2624

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Book ID: 108 Page: 3

Section: 4B

This is what the goddesses said to me first, the Olympian Muses, daughters of Zeus the aegis-bearer.

Quote ID: 2625

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Book ID: 108 Page: 37

Section: 4B

Muses from Pieria, who glorify by songs, come to me, tell of Zeus your father in your singing.

Quote ID: 2626

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Book ID: 108 Page: 40

Section: 5D

The race of men that the immortals who dwell on Olympus made first of all was of gold.

Quote ID: 2627

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Book ID: 108 Page: 40

Section: 5D

A second race after that, much inferior, the dwellers on Olympus made of silver.

Quote ID: 2628

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Book ID: 108 Page: 41

Section: 5D

Then Zeus the father made yet a third race of men, of bronze, not like the sliver in anything.

Quote ID: 2629

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Book ID: 108 Page: 41

Section: 5D

After the earth covered up this race too, Zeus son of Kronos made yet a fourth one upon the rich-pastured earth, a more righteous and noble one, the godly race of the heroes who are called demigods, our predecessors on the boundless earth.

Quote ID: 2630

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Book ID: 108 Page: 42

Section: 5D

Would that I were not then among the fifth men, but either dead earlier or born later! For now it is a race of iron;

Quote ID: 2631

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Book ID: 108 Page: xix

Section: 4B

Right is the daughter of Zeus (256), the rule Zeus has laid down for mankind (276-80). He listens to her reports of injustice, rewards the righteous with prosperity, and punishes the unrighteous.

Quote ID: 2623

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