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...Zeus, of the towering thunders....
Hesiod,The Works and Days, line 8, trans., Richard Lattimore, Ann Arbor, 1968, p.19.
PLACE: Boiotia, Greece
TIME: ca. 8th Century B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: One of the traditional epithets for Zeus.
Boreas, the north wind, blows over the land,...
he gets his breath and rises on the open water by horse-breeding
Thrace, and blows, and the earth and the forest groan, as many
oaks with sweeping foliage, many solid fir trees
along the slopes of the mountains his force bends
against the prospering earth,
and all the innumerable forest is loud with him.
Hesiod,The Works and Days, lines 505-511, trans., Richard Lattimore, Ann Arbor, 1968, p.79.
PLACE: Boiotia, Greece
TIME: ca. 8th Century B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: The Boreas wind at the end of winter - a hard time.
But when the artichoke is in flower,
and the clamorous cricket
sitting in his tree lets go his vociferous singing,
that issues from the beating of his wings, in the exhausting
season of summer;
then is when goats are at their fattest,
when the wine tastes best,...
Hesiod, The Works and Days, lines 581-585, trans., Richard Lattimore, Ann Arbor, 1968 p.87.
PLACE: Boiotia, Greece
TIME: ca. 8th Century B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: The farmer gets hes cues for all his activities from nature. The cricket, heard in midsummer, tells him the time is ripe for goats and wine.
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