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wrote one of his poems called, Works and Days.
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This poem offers advice to farmers on how to live,
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but it also contains a story in which Hesiod talks about himself
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and the quarrel he has with his brother
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over who inherits what from the father,
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and he claims he's been cheated out of his inheritance
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because his brother bribed the judges.
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Well, who are these judges?
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He calls them basileis, kings.
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These would have been these aristocratic figures
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who we know in the earliest days of the polis.
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They were the judicial authority basing that