develop technology, of course this technology initially lacked a scientific
method to prove itself, so the easiest thing to do was to fantasize and give a
divine value to things. From this epic inspiration according to Greek
legend, Hesiod was a farmer in the region of Boeotia in Greece who one
day was tending his sheep when he met the Nine Muses. The Nine Muses
were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory: pay attention to
this concept!), these divine beings inspired creators of all kinds, primarily
poets. By convention, the Muses were always invoked at the beginning of
an epic poem.
So these Muses inspired Hesiod to write the epic poem of 828
verses called "Labours and Days" (Opera et dies) (^) [ 85 ]. In it, Hesiod tells
three myths: the story of Prometheus' theft of fire, the story of Pandora and
her box of evils, and the five ages of man. The five ages of man is the
Greek story of creation (although it is disputed whether its astrological
origin is from the change of era of the signs from Taurus to Aries, and from
Aries to Pisces) which traces the lineage of mankind through five
successive "ages" or "races", including the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the
Bronze Age, the Age of Heroes and the present (to Hesiod) Iron Age. I have
tried to consult the oldest printed source to add to the bibliography and
references to enrich the text, so it is important to mention that the
translation of the Greek literary legacy into Latin occupied the main Italian
humanist masters since the middle of the 15 th century. In this eagerness, the
productions did not always aim at achieving literary appreciable versions
through their "translatio ad uerbum" (translation into the word), which
meant that few scholars undertook the arduous task of bringing their
translations to a high literary level. Among these men of letters who, thanks
to trade with Chinese ships and their inventions (^) [ 86 ], recovered the lost
history of the library of Alexandria. Is the young Roman humanist Nicolas
Valla (Nicolaus de Valle, 1444 - 1473 ) and the prototypographers who
produced the "editio princeps de Opera et Dies" (^) [ 87 ].