Everyone has heard of Homer, The blind bard that gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey, But did you know that there was a poet, roughly comtemporary with Homer, whose works represent the other part of just about everything we know about ancient Greek poetry and mythology. His name was Hesiod. Following is a cool excerpt from Hesiod's "Works and Days."
To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and in shoals: the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard.
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