The "Megala Erga" (Ancient Greek: Μέγαλα Ἔργα),[1] or "Great Works", is a now fragmentary didactic poem that was attributed to the Greek oral poet Hesiod during antiquity.
[2] As such, the Megala Erga would appear to have the same relation to the Works and Days as does the Megalai Ehoiai to the Catalogue of Women.
[3] Although the remains of the poem found in other ancient authors are meager, it can be said that the Megala Erga appears to have been concerned with both morality and the conveyance of more-or-less practical information like the extant Hesiodic poem upon which its title drew.
[4] The other securely attributed fragment resembles many of the gnomic utterances that characterize the Works and Days:[5]
If someone sowed evils, he would reap evil profits;if he suffered what he committed, the judgement would be straight[6] εἰ κακά τις σπείραι, κακὰ κέρδεά <κεκ'> ἀμήσειεν·εἴ κε πάθοι, τά τ' ἔρεξε, δίκη κ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτο Other fragments that have been tentatively assigned to the poem concern the strengths man possesses at different points in his life (fr.