Ascra
Boeotia (Greece)
A humble farming village in Boeotia on the slopes of Mount Helicon, where the poet Hesiod kept sheep and received from the Muses the inspiration for the earliest Greek poetry of the gods and of working the land.
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Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Ascra. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.