Hesiod Quotes
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Hesiod. Works and Days. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Harvard University Press, 1914, lines 265-266.
See Robert Southey for the later version 400 years later which is more familiar to us.
Hesiod (/ˈhiːsiəd, ˈhɛsiəd/; Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos, 'he who emits the voice') was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought, archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.
