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
Time Periods: ?
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
Time Periods: ?
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
Time Periods: ?
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
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 108 Page: 40
Section: 5D
A second race after that, much inferior, the dwellers on Olympus made of silver.
Quote ID: 2628
Time Periods: ?
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
Time Periods: ?
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
Time Periods: ?
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
Time Periods: ?
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
Time Periods: ?
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