If we knew all the categories included under such a general term we should thereby know to what extent there was division of labour in the VIHth century. It is not enough to observe that it did not go very far in the villages. In Hesiod’s time the Boeotian farmer still weaves his own chiton and chlaina, makes his own shoes, and manufactures his own utensils, waggon, and ploughing implements; but this might be the case in the rustic parts of countries where the industrial towns already have a fairly developed division of labour. Let us therefore examine more closely the employment of the Demiurges.