Section I: NARRATOR vs. PERSES (1-382)
    1-10: PROEM: Invocation to (Pierian) MUSES
    11-26: 2 Species of ERIS (strife)
    27-34: Advice to PERSES: avoid bad strife and pursue good
    34-41: The quarrel with Perses

42-105: PROMETHEUS & ZEUS (exemplum I)
     60-104: PANDORA

106-201: 5 AGES (genow) of MANKIND
    110-126: GOLD/1st: product of Olympians (110) under reign of Kronos (111)
    127-142: SILVER/2nd: product of Olympians (128) under reign of Zeus (cf. 138)
    143-156: BRONZE/3rd: product of Zeus, warlike bronze ashmen
    157-173: HEROES/4th: product of Zeus (157)
    174-180: IRON/5th: current age (narrator's view)

202-212: HAWK & NIGHTINGALE

213-247: ADDRESS to PERSES: HYBRIS and DIKE

225-47: TALE of TWO CITIES

248-273: ADDRESS to BASILEIS: ZEUS is the guarantor of justice

274-319: ADDRESS to PERSES on the path to righteousness

319-382: ADVICE (address to Perses gives way to more general exhortation)
    327-334 crimes that elicit divine wrath
    335-341 exhortation to piety
    342-382 household advice

Section II: FARMER'S ALMANAC (383-618)
    383-492: REAPING, PLOWING, SOWING
    493-563: WINTER season activities
    564-617: VITICULTURE
 

Section III: miscellaneous advice (618-828)
    618-694: SEAFARING
    632-640: “HESIOD”'S FATHER
    641-645: PERSES (last mention of him) to be mindful of ship difficulties
    646-653: 'NAUTILIA' (Trojan War).
    654-659: FUNERAL GAMES for AMPHIDAMOS

695-764: RELIGIOUS & SOCIETAL OBLIGATIONS

765-828: DAYS OF ZEUS