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  • In a long didactic poem entitled Works and Days, the early epic poet Hesiod admonished his wayward brother Perses with an account of the Five Ages of the human race.

    Mesoamerican Religion and Multiverses: Part One 2008

  • In a long didactic poem entitled Works and Days, the early epic poet Hesiod admonished his wayward brother Perses with an account of the Five Ages of the human race.

    Mesoamerican Religion and Multiverses: Part One 2008

  • In a long didactic poem entitled Works and Days, the early epic poet Hesiod admonished his wayward brother Perses with an account of the Five Ages of the human race.

    Mesoamerican Religion and Multiverses: Part One 2008

  • And propitiate only-begotten Hecate, daughter of Perses, pouring from

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Be witness the sacred light of Helios, be witness the rites of the maiden that wanders by night, daughter of Perses.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Personne n'ignore la prodigieuse consommation qui se fait en France des Indiennes, des Perses, des toiles peintes, ou teintes qui nous viennent d'Angleterre, de Hollande, de Suisse, d'Allemagne, de Silésie, &c …

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Perses, however, who is represented as an idler and spendthrift, obtained and kept the larger share by bribing the corrupt

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • But do you at any rate, always remembering my charge, work, high-born Perses, that Hunger may hate you, and venerable Demeter richly crowned may love you and fill your barn with food; for Hunger is altogether a meet comrade for the sluggard.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Also she bare Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Perses; while Apelles begot Maeon who was the father of Homer by a daughter of the River Meles.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

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