Writing the Past

Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth ...

And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses sai...

Alas! alas! lament, O city; the son of Zeus, thy fairest bloom, is being cut down. Woe is thee, Hellas! that wilt cast from thee thy bene...