Hesiod

The approach to interpreting Greek mythology has been long debated among various theories, including allegory, comparative mythology, myth-ritual, psychoanalysis and structuralism (Dowden 17-24). As regard to the myth of Pandora by Hesiod in his masterpieces of Theogony (573-620, translated by Trzaskoma et al. 131-160) and Works and Days (75-125, translated by Trzaskoma et al. 160-167), two particular theories stand out along with my interpretation: comparative mythology (Dowden 21) and…

We first heard his name when Hesiod relates Iapetus’ line of descendants with Clymene (cite): “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius…

the god who stole fire for the human race. Hesiod details the punishment for this “And he bound Prometheus with ineluctable fetters, / Painful bonds, and drove a shaft through his middle” Theogony ln. 303-304. In Genesis, God has one rule: “Nevertheless of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat, for on the day you eat of it you shall most surely die” CM pg. 74. Another similarity is the theme of how the world was created. Hesiod said “Gaia, the Earth, came into being ……

However, some are less concerned with Pandora’s character and more interested in her jar and its contents. P. Walcot’s article, Pandora's jar, Erga 83-105, begins exploring that topic with an examination of the poet Hesiod’s intent. Walcot claims that Hesiod fixated on the tale of two brothers, Prometheus and Epimetheus, in order to communicate a moral to his own brother, Perses. That moral is obvious: Mind the advice given to you by your brother, or you will find yourself in the same position…

(Ovid 3). However, chaos did not necessarily relate to disorder, but a dark, purposeless space from which the universe was created—a vital aspect that both authors outline. The gods mating with each other could resolve this disorder, according to Hesiod, and the offspring are playing a crucial role in the foundation of the universe. This is demonstrated in ‘ Other Early Gods’ and ‘The Birth of the Olympians, ' gods that later play a substantial role in creating and sustaining the universe. The…

fight for more respect. In both Hesiod’s Theogony, and Homers The Odyssey; both men chose to represents women in Greek society in a degrading way. Unlike Euripides play Medea that shows a different kind of representation of women in Greek society. In Hesiod, homer, and Euripides writings they have some similarities, differences, and personal representations on woman in Greek societies. Since Hesiod’s, Homer, and Euripides plays were written about old Greek society, it is difficult to say there…

make the first woman who was named Pandora, or "all-gifts" because she would receive a different gift from each god. First, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to shape the form of a goddess out of clay, "to add human speech...and the lovely face of a maiden"(Hesiod 61). Following, Athena supplied her clothing and hair, then taught her to weave on a loom and womanly skills. To enhance her beauty, the Charites and Horae embellished her with jewelry and flowers, respectively. But…

Out from the personification of night springs abstractions that bear similarity to her, Nyx, much like how a child bears similarity to their parents. Through the entities that arose from her, Hesiod presents in his Theogony an example of how the generation of the Greek Pantheon is one of like from like and how that in at least one way the race of immortal gods is similar to the race of men; the children begotten in both groups carry on the qualities or identities of their parents. The “dark”…

If I were asked about what literary work every freshman at OSU should be reading, I could suggest that every first-year student should study the Odyssey written by Homer almost three thousand years ago. It is in fact a work of high artistic merit, which rises such important topics for discussion as faithfulness to family and devotion to homeland, and therefore is required for reading. Homer’s Odyssey is everlasting and required for reading not because of its beautifully stated style but because…

Homer and Hesiod were considered by some to be the founding fathers of ancient Greek epos, or epic poetry. Both poets used dactylic hexameter and oral poetry to convey their ideas on the way of the world. While we know both poets lived around the same time, as they reference each other in their works, it is very difficult to say who wrote first and responded to whom made harder by the fact that they used oral traditions to get their poetry and ideas across all of Greece attempting to appeal to…