Hesiod Quotes
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
Hesiod. The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis. Translated by Rev. J. Banks, Henry G. Bohn, 1856, p. 88.
These were amazingly accurate assessments at a time when this was not at all obvious to most. The large mechanization of agriculture would take place in the 1830s and 1840s but this astute observer saw the intellectual ideas impinging on society and realized that it was only a matter of time for these ideas to be implemented and bring great change to agriculture. That change has never stopped and continues at an even more rapid pace in modern times making American Agriculture the most efficient and effective in the world.
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.
