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Hesiod, Works and Days, line 140 (search)
of chill Hades, and left no name: terrible though they were,black Death seized them, and they left the bright light of the sun. But when earth had covered this generation also, Zeus the son of Cronos made yet another, the fourth, upon the fruitful earth, which was nobler and more righteous, a god-like race of hero-men who are calleddemi-gods, the race before our own, throughout the boundless earth. Grim war and dread battle destroyed a part of them, some in the land of Cadmus at seven-gated Thebes when they fought for the flocks of Oedipus, and some, when it had brought them in ships over the great sea gulfto Troy for rich-haired Helen's sake: there death's end enshrouded a part of them. But to the others father Zeus the son of Cronos gave a living and an abode apart from men, and made them dwell at the ends of earth.And they live untouched by sorrow in the islands of the blessed along the shore of deep-swirling Ocean, happy heroes for whomthe grain-giving earth bears honey-sweet frui