Assignment for Friday, 09.13.19

Dear Mythologists,

For Friday, September 13 (yikes!), please do the following:

(1) Read carefully, as before, the excerpt from Hesiod's Works and Days in the appendix of the packet handed out last Friday.

(2) As you read, please consider the following questions:

• To judge from this excerpt, how is the Works and Days similar to the Theogony in tone and subject matter? How is it different?
• What does this excerpt add to your understanding of the Hesiodic cosmos?

In class we'll not only consider the poems in light of each other, but also use them to pave the way for our eventual reading of Homer's Iliad.

DC