Hesiod’s Works and Days as an Economics Textbook

Gregory Papanikos ()

Athens Journal of Business & Economics, 2022, vol. 8, issue 4, 385-416

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the whereabouts of Hesiod’s life (days) and the most of his important works which is entitled, “Works and Days†. The first part of the paper examines Hesiod’s life and education. It is claimed that he was educated by his father who knew the Aeolian dialect as he migrated from Aeolia of Asia Minor to Boeotia of Central Eastern Greece. The second part of the paper is devoted to Hesiod’s masterpiece, “Works and Days†. I have claimed elsewhere (Papanikos 2022a) that Hesiod was the first known economist who wrote using a poetic form instead of prose because this was the means to satisfy the need of memorizing the whole text. The “Work and Days†apart from its literary value, has a very practical (didactic), unparalleled value which makes it the first economics textbook ever known in history. The book is then presented as being organized into twenty chapters to emphasize that it could have been used as an introductory economics didactic text.

Keywords: Hesiod; Askra; Works and Days; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.30958/ajbe.8-4-5

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