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Hesiod, Works And Days, 312-319


εἰ δέ κε ἐργάζῃ, τάχα σε ζηλώσει ἀεργὸςNoble Perses, and work with steadfastne


πλουτεῦντα· πλούτῳ δʼ ἀρετὴ καὶ κῦδος ὀπηδεῖ.Till Hunger vexes you and you’re a friend


δαίμονι δʼ οἷος ἔησθα, τὸ ἐργάζεσθαι ἄμεινονOf holy, wreathed Demeter, who with corn


εἴ κεν ἀπʼ ἀλλοτρίων κτεάνων ἀεσίφρονα θυμὸνWill fill your barn. But Hunger will attend


εἰς ἔργον τρέψας μελετᾷς βίου, ὥς σε κελεύω.A lazy man. The gods and men all scorn


αἰδὼς δʼ οὐκ ἀγαθὴ κεχρημένον ἄνδρα κομίζειA lazy man, who’s like a stingless drone


αἰδώς, ἥ τʼ ἄνδρας μέγα σίνεται ἠδʼ ὀνίνησιν.Who merely eats and wastes the industry


αἰδώς τοι πρὸς ἀνολβίῃ, θάρσος δὲ πρὸς ὄλβῳ.Of the bees. You must be organized and hone


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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 118-119, 176-177, 20, 202-209, 21, 210-212, 22-23, 231, 237, 24, 240-311, 313-771, 775-776, 804, 813-828, 91, 117 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

117. High on Olympus first devised a race
2. Hesiod, Theogony, 37-43, 53, 36 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

36. The past and future, and to lionize
3. Plato, Protagoras, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.2.1, 2.1.20, 2.1.26, 2.1.29, 2.1.33-2.1.34 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.2.1. No less wonderful is it to me that some believed the charge brought against Socrates of corrupting the youth. In the first place, apart from what I have said, in control of his own passions and appetites he was the strictest of men; further, in endurance of cold and heat and every kind of toil he was most resolute; and besides, his needs were so schooled to moderation that having very little he was yet very content. 2.1.20. Moreover, indolence and present enjoyment can never bring the body into good condition, as trainers say, neither do they put into the soul knowledge of any value, but strenuous effort leads up to good and noble deeds, as good men say. And so says Hesiod somewhere: Hes. WD 285 Wickedness can be had in abundance easily: smooth is the road and very nigh she dwells. But in front of virtue the gods immortal have put sweat: long and steep is the path to her and rough at first; but when you reach the top, then at length the road is easy, hard though it was. Hes. WD 285 And we have the testimony of Epicharmus too in the line: The gods demand of us toil as the price of all good things. Epicharmus And elsewhere he says: Knave, yearn not for the soft things, lest thou earn the hard. Epicharmus 2.1.26. Now when Heracles heard this, he asked, Lady, pray what is your name? My friends call me Happiness, she said, but among those that hate me I am nicknamed Vice. 2.1.29. And Vice, as Prodicus tells, answered and said: Heracles, mark you how hard and long is that road to joy, of which this woman tells? but I will lead you by a short and easy road to happiness. And Virtue said: 2.1.33. To my friends meat and drink bring sweet and simple enjoyment: for they wait till they crave them. And a sweeter sleep falls on them than on idle folk: they are not vexed at awaking from it, nor for its sake do they neglect to do their duties. The young rejoice to win the praise of the old; the elders are glad to be honoured by the young; with joy they recall their deeds past, and their present well-doing is joy to them, for through me they are dear to the gods, lovely to friends, precious to their native land. And when comes the appointed end, they lie not forgotten and dishonoured, but live on, sung and remembered for all time. O Heracles, thou son of goodly parents, if thou wilt labour earnestly on this wise, thou mayest have for thine own the most blessed happiness. 2.1.34. Such, in outline, is Prodicus’ story of the training of Heracles by Virtue; only he has clothed the thoughts in even finer phrases than I have done now. But anyhow, Aristippus, it were well that you should think on these things and try to show some regard for the life that lies before you.
5. Xenophon, Symposium, 4.34 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4.34. Come, now, Antisthenes, said Socrates , take your turn and tell us how it is that with such slender means you base your pride on wealth. Because, sirs, I conceive that people’s wealth and poverty are to be found not in their real estate but in their hearts.
6. Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 97 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

7. Demosthenes, On The Crown, 267 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

8. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 5.1452-5.1453 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

9. Vergil, Georgics, 1.127, 1.130, 1.139-1.145, 1.151, 1.486, 1.495, 1.505, 1.511 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.139. O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade 1.140. Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth 1.141. First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain 1.142. The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand 1.143. Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream 1.144. Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime 1.145. Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke 1.151. And succory's bitter fibres cease to harm 1.486. Round Asian meads within thy fresher-pools 1.495. Know not the storm-sign, when in blazing crock 1.505. Do halcyons dear to Thetis ope their wings 1.511. Distinct in clearest air is Nisus seen
10. Plutarch, Aristides, 25.7-25.8 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



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agricultural calendar Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84
appraisal theory de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in prodicus heracles story Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 200
blend of cognition and emotion de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
city of the just, the Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83
comedy Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
daimones, and socrates Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 181
demosthenes Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
discrepancy, between words and deeds Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84
drama Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
emotions, admiration/awe de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, anger/rage de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, disappointment de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, joy de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, love/passion de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
emotions, sorrow de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
eris Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83
eudaimonia/-ē Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 181
eudaimonism, socratic Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 181
euripides Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
food Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84
geography, ethical Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 100
gifts Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84
golden age, in georgic Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99
golden age Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155
hecuba Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
hesiod, paths to vice and virtue Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 200
hesiod Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84; Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
io Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155
iron age, instituted by jove Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99
jove, and iron age Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99
justice Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84
labor, in hesiod Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155
leaving the city, as a metaliterary metaphor Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84
leocrates Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
muses, the Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83
pain/suffering de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 163
pandora Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83
perses Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84
poetic quotations Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
poetry, and aristocratic power Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84
poverty, of socrates Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 181
prodicus, heracles choice story Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 200
prodicus Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 200
prometheus Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155
socrates, poverty of Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 181
solon Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
timeliness Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 84
tragedy' Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 331
utopia Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83, 84
wealth, socratic view Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 181
wealth Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 100
xenophon, as source for prodicus Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 200
zeus Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 155; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 83; Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 100
ἔργον Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 100
ἔρις Skempis and Ziogas, Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (2014) 100