The Concept of Justice in Hesiod’s Works and Days

This thesis is a study of different concepts of justice unfolded in Hesiod’s Works and Days. It opens with an overview of how the idea of justice is perceived in Ancient Greek times and its three authors endeavor to reconstruct it by appealing to the text. The argument is problematized by taking into account numerous concepts, such as social justice, cosmic justice, distributive justice and retributive justice. The following discussion involves allegorical interpretation of Zeus, Pandora and Prometheus from Works and Days in an effort to explore how they represent the issue in contemporary Greek society. Finally, the thesis concludes that tracing the development of justice helps us understand the foundation of modern society.