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mxmorganic's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
The 5*’s are for West’s translation, which is excellent - it reads like Hesiod’s Greek while in fact being very accessible, easily understood English.
Note though that I think Works & Days is a drag - the second half bored me to death. The first half, though, and all of the Theogony - those are absolutely worth the read!
Note though that I think Works & Days is a drag - the second half bored me to death. The first half, though, and all of the Theogony - those are absolutely worth the read!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism
Moderate: Incest
Minor: War, Violence, and Slavery
jackpumpkinhead's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
"Inferiority can be got in droves, easily: the road is smooth, and she lives very near."
"For the morning accounts for a third of the work:
morning forwards the journey, forwards the job,
morning, whose appearance puts many a man
on the road, and sets the yoke on many an ox."
"In due season bring a wife into your house, when you are neither many years short of thirty nor many beyond it: this is your seasonable marriage." you're not the boss of me Hesiod.
"For the morning accounts for a third of the work:
morning forwards the journey, forwards the job,
morning, whose appearance puts many a man
on the road, and sets the yoke on many an ox."
"In due season bring a wife into your house, when you are neither many years short of thirty nor many beyond it: this is your seasonable marriage." you're not the boss of me Hesiod.
mimorireads's review against another edition
2.0
Good to learn the names of those Greek gods/goddesses and demigods
flamingo_and_owl_books's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
arekusu16's review against another edition
3.0
Entiendo que tiene más de dos mil años, y es una de las escrituras más antiguas sobre el origen de los dioses griegos y del cosmos, pero eso no quita que "el autor" sea un misógino asqueroso.
That said: como texto mitológico es un 10/10, pero "Hesiodo", si es que fue él o ella quien escribió los dos poemas, que se quede bien enterradite.
That said: como texto mitológico es un 10/10, pero "Hesiodo", si es que fue él o ella quien escribió los dos poemas, que se quede bien enterradite.
alanrussellfuller's review against another edition
5.0
In Works and Days Hesiod also offers his brother extensive moralizing advice on how he should live his life. Here is an outline for Works and Days.
Intro. "Attend thou with eye and ear, and make judgements straight with righteousness."
A. Five ages of man
1. Gold - no trouble or toil
2. Silver - childish
3. Brass - strong and war like
4. Heroes - demi-gods
5. Iron - short lived
B. Hawk and Nightengale
C. Two ways judgement
D. Wisdom
1. Agricultural seasonal wisdom
2. Maritime seasonal wisdom
Closing "That man is happy and lucky in them who knows all these things and does his work without offending the deathless gods, who discerns the omens of birds and avoids transgressions."
Hesiod's Theogony describes the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods.
Outline
A. Muses - sing truth
B. Primordial Deities - Chaos, sky, earth, etc.
C. Genealogies of Titans - Titans and their offspring, Zeus seeks to swallow his children.
D. Zeus' Ascent to Power -Zeus and the "Hundred-Handers" defeat the Titans
1. Zeus casts the Titans deep into Tartaros.
2. Gaia and Tartaros conceive Typhoeus.
3. Zeus defeats Typhoeus and locks him in Tartaros
E. Zeus'/Olympian Genealogy - Zeus divides the Universe between sky, sea, and underworld
1. Zeus and his seven wives produce Fates and Muses
2. Zeus fathers Olympians with Poseidon and the Nereid Amphitrite
F. Mortals and Immortals
goodwhinge's review against another edition
3.0
speed read it 30 minutes before class, so don’t really have much to say if I’m honest.