Dour, anxious Hesiod writes about the daily round of farming and the effects if the seasons on rural life but also speaks in his Works and Days about the value of festal competitions with "potter against potter, carpenter against carpenter... poet against poet."

— Thomas Cahill Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

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