Average Pay and Range. The average hourly pay for an auto mechanic was $18.97 as of 2013, or the equivalent of $39,450 annually full time, according to the BLS. Wages varied depending on the type of job and the mechanic's experience.
That there was an epic poet called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping the Iliad and the Odysseyâso much may be said to be probable. If this assumption is accepted, then Homer must assuredly be one of the greatest of the worldâs literary artists.
Hesiod probably lived around 700 B.C., shortly after Homer, in a Boeotian village called Ascra. This is one of the few details of his life that Hesiod reveals in his writing. Hesiod worked as a shepherd in the mountains, as a youth, and then, as a small peasant on a hard land when his father died.