Table of Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION

THE POEM
What It Contains
Who Composed It

THE WORLD OF HESIOD's TIME
Prehistory
Political Power and the basilees in the Earliest Poetry
Redistribution, Markets, and Trade

HESIOD'S DAILY BREAD
Hesiod the Farmer
Hesiod's oikos and Livelihood
Size of Hesiod's Farm
Tools and Equipment
Hunger, Crop Failure, and Debt
Storage
Getting Grain from a Distance
Hesiod's Trading
A Farmer's Almanac

HESIOD AND HIS BROTHER:
THE VIEW FROM THE PERIPHERY
Chrea
Dike

WORKS AND DAYS BY HESIOD
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

David W. Tandy is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and coeditor of From Political Economy to Anthropology: Situating Economic Life in Past Societies (1994). Walter C. Neale is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and author of Developing Rural India: Policies, Politics, and Progress (1990).