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Works and Days: a watercolor manga

All 6 parts of Hesiod's Works and Days in 35 illustrated pages. Free.

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Works and Days, Part 1, first manga pagePart OneThe two Strifes: Hesiod warns his brother Perses, who took the bigger share of their inheritance and bribed the lords.Works and Days, Part 2, first manga pagePart TwoPrometheus steals fire; Zeus has the first woman, Pandora, made; she opens the jar and only Hope stays inside.Works and Days, Part 3, first manga pagePart ThreeThe five races of men: gold, silver, bronze, the heroes of Thebes and Troy, and our own iron age.Works and Days, Part 4, first manga pagePart FourThe hawk and the nightingale, Justice dragged off by bribe-eaters, the steep road to excellence, and good neighbors.Works and Days, Part 5, first manga pagePart FiveThe farmer's year: the Pleiades, plows and oxen, the cranes, the north wind, the cicada's summer and the grape harvest.Works and Days, Part 6, first manga pagePart SixThe sea, the sayings and the days: when to sail, Hesiod's prize tripod, marriage, rumor, and the lucky and unlucky days.
Every caption and speech bubble is a word-for-word line from the Scriptorium Press translation of the Works and Days. The pictures were drawn with an AI image model (Google's Nano Banana) and checked page by page against the text. Each part links to the full text, so you can read the scene in full after seeing it drawn.