LEGENDS RELATING TO HEROES AND MEN.
Races of men as they appear in the Hesiodic “Works and Days.”—The
Golden.—The Silver.—The Brazen.—The Heroic.—The Iron.—Different
both from the Theogony and from Homer.—Explanation of this
difference.—Ethical vein of sentiment.—Intersected by the
mythical.—The “Works and Days,” earliest didactic poem.—First
Introduction of dæmons.—Changes in the idea of dæmons.—Employed
in attacks on the pagan faith.—Functions of the Hesiodic
dæmons.—Personal feeling which pervades the “Works and
Days.”—Probable age of the poem. 64-73