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Tables of Contents for God and the Land
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xvii
 
Geneaological Table
2
3
Translator's Note: Hesiod's Works and Days
5
4
HESIOD'S WORKS AND DAYS
9
22
David Grene
INTRODUCTION: HESIOD, POET AND FARMER
31
10
Hesiod's Time
33
1
Hesiod's Town and Country
34
2
Hesiod--Or Was He?
36
5
1. THE COMPOSITION OF HESIOD'S POEMS
41
18
The Composition of the Theogony
44
2
The Composition of the Works and Days
46
2
The Farmer's Year
48
11
2. THE MYTHIC BACKGROUND
59
23
Hesiod's Outlook
59
5
Pandora and the Nature of Hardship
64
4
The Five Ages: The History of Hardship
68
9
Hesiod's Fable and the Justice of Zeus
77
5
3. THE COMPOSITION OF THE GEORGICS: VERGIL'S FARM
82
16
Roman Farming
88
3
Vergil's Works and Days
91
3
Vergil and the Animals
94
4
4. GOD
98
27
The Divine Order
98
6
Zeus and His Children
104
3
The Theology of Farming
107
3
The Gods of the Georgics
110
3
The Georgic of Force
113
4
The Georgic of Understanding
117
8
5. THE HUMAN CONTEXT
125
27
Justice, Perception, and Farming
125
5
The Balance of Justice
130
5
The Place of Justice
135
3
Force and Order: Vergil and Caesar
138
3
The Third Georgic: The Problem of the Individual
141
5
The Fourth Georgic: The Promise of the Whole
146
6
6. THE PLACE OF NATURE
152
19
The City, the Farm, and Nature
152
3
Orpheus and Aristaeus
155
7
Hesiod and the Balance of Nature
162
9
Notes
171
60
Bibliography
231
16
Index
247