Roughly contemporary with Homer, the Greek poet Hesiod (fl. c. 700 BCE) is best known for two epics, Works and Days and Theogony. The first seems to have started as two distinct pieces. One exalts honest labour and denounces corruption and injustice; the other is a kind of almanac containing practical advice for the farmer's work. In contrast, his Theogony relates the myths of the Greek gods, "a thunderous tempest of sex and violence" (Hale, Horizon History of Greece).