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The " Megala Erga" (),The Latin translation of the title, Magna Opera, is occasionally used, as at . or " Great Works", is a now fragmentary didacticism poem that was attributed to the Ancient Greece oral poet Hesiod during antiquity. Only two brief direct quotations can be attributed to the work with certainty, but it was likely similar to the Hesiodic Works and Days, with the " Megala", "great", of the title implying that it was longer than the extant poem., . As such, the Megala Erga would appear to have the same relation to the Works and Days as does the Megalai Ehoiai to the Catalogue of Women., .
Although the remains of the poem found in other ancient authors are meager, it can be said that the Megala Erga appears to have been concerned with both morality and the conveyance of more-or-less practical information like the extant Hesiodic poem upon which its title drew. The scholia to the Myth of the Ages in the Works and Days, à propos of the Race of Silver ( WD 128), reports that in the Megala Erga a genealogy for silver was given: it was a descendant of Gaia. Megala Erga 287 Merkelbach–West. The other securely attributed fragment resembles many of the Gnomic poetry utterances that characterize the Works and Days:
Other fragments that have been tentatively assigned to the poem concern the strengths man possesses at different points in his life (fr. 321),"Deeds are of the young, counsels of the middle-aged, prayers of the old", trans. (his fr. no. 271). religious practices (fr. 322)"Howsoever the city performs sacrifice, ancient custom is the best", trans. (his fr. no. 272). and filial piety (fr. 323)."To your father you must be obedient." For the attribution of these fragments to the Megala Erga see .
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