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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
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Like reading the alphabet or a dictionary, a very slow example of Greek mythology, I’d recommend you start from Ovid’s metamorphoses. The pace is so fast it’s hard to keep up. Some parts were very beautiful and whimsy, for example the birth of Aphrodite.
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Just not as interesting as I had expected.
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Theogony is fairly standard stuff and mostly boring. Works and Days is good as a sort of proto-Georgics.
Theognis comes off less as an elegist and more like a whiner.
I'm sure most of the good stuff is lost in translation.
Theognis comes off less as an elegist and more like a whiner.
I'm sure most of the good stuff is lost in translation.
Poetic, reverent, viciously misogynistic - no wonder this is a founding text of the Classical tradition.