Three only of the poems ascribed to him have come down to us, viz. the didactic poem named Works and Days, the Theogony, and the Shield of Hercules. […] Some Tyrrhenian pirates, at the instigation of the Argives, stole the image, in order to draw down the vengeance of the people on Admeta. […] They then cut down that tree, and made an image from it. […] She saw a pool, and knelt down at it to drink. […] She bathes, sits down to a rich repast, and is regaled with music by invisible performers.