Hesiod

Sparta were oligarchic. The citizens of Athens, compared to Sparta’s, were more involved in the government. Required Reading: Greek Literature: Read the following subsections: Greek literature through and including The Greco-Roman Age 4. Who was Hesiod and what type of poetry did he write? What were his most important works? He was the founder of the didactic epic and the first major Greek poet after Homer. Some of his important work are “Theogony” and “Works and Days”. 5. What…

The word “mythology” could be defined as a collection of sacred tales, human origin stories, or religious cultural beliefs. Greek Mythology is the teachings and religious tales that belong specifically to the ancient Greeks. Their myths are about gods and heroes and their religious beliefs of the nature of the world. There are many different Greek mythologies that explain the natural phenomena in which humankind lived. Each story is different; some stories gave advice on how to live happy lives,…

prevents living souls from entering the underworld.He is know as the”the monstrous watchdog of the underworld” by Encyclopaedia Britannica for cerberus was one of the labours of the warrior in greek mythology.The Encyclopaedia also states that the poet Hesiod said that “he had 50 Heads and had heads of snakes grew from his back, and he had a serpent’s tail”.And as a result, of that he is often portrayed as a fierce monster.…

the child who went against his father and “lopped of [his] genitals with the sickle, tossing “them from the land into the stormy sea”; thus becoming the next king amongst gods (Hesiod ll 182). However, Kronos “had learned from Gaia and starry Ouranos that he, despite his power, was fated to be subdued by his own son” (Hesiod ll 463-465). Similar to Ouranos’ fear of his children overpowering him, Kronos thought to repress his children, by swallowing them so they could not grow and one day turn…

powerful Olympian gods, has a vast leadership on humankind alone. Known as “the best and greatest of the gods,” given in the Homeric Hymns to Zeus, the epithet describes various characteristics that exhibit his impact on the polis. In the Theogany, Hesiod expresses Gaia, Zeus and the other Olympians during the Titanomachy involving the importance of resurrecting the Hundred-Handed from…

Humanity has always possessed a thirst for the knowledge of the unknown, but the consequences of this knowledge never crosses the minds of those who seek it. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, shows this foolishness in perfect light, portraying the madness of Victor Frankenstein in his thirst for the creation of life. In his success, he becomes revolted by his Creature, leaving him on his own at the beginning of his new life and leading him to murderous tendencies towards the…

What forces shaped the Greeks ' attitudes to competitiveness? Social performance played a crucial role in the life of any Ancient Greek and the result of this constant performance was that the agôn became essential to the social dynamics of Ancient Greece. Agôn had a variety of meanings throughout Greek history, at first the term was used to define a space in which people compete however later on it was used to denote any kind of competition whether it be in an athletic contest or a…

earliest poetic works. It dates back to 2000 B.C. and was a tradition of the Sumerians. The ancient Greeks were also known for epic poetry that dates back as early as 1200 B.C. and A.D. 455. Homer and Hesiod were two of the most famous Greek poets. Homer wrote the “Iliad” and The “Odyssey” while Hesiod wrote “Works and Days.” It is said that poetry was originally used to tell a story so people could remember it easier. Most of the epic poetry was written in Latin. This is the beginning of the…

the supposedly sunken island-continent on the Atlantic Ocean floor; that Herodotus and Socrates had never heard of the Athens-Atlantis war; that Plato did insist on the poetic nature of Solon’s story by comparing Solon to the great poets Homer and Hesiod; that Plato did place the war in a pre-diluvian era; and that Plato was not a historian, nor a geographer, but a true philosopher, whose interests lay…

I read was How the World and Mankind Were Created by Edith Hamilton. It starts off with a brief explanation like the rest of the book does with sources and inside this section a variety of different stories. Chapter III’s context comes mainly from Hesiod, a greek poet with myths about the beginning of everything. The premise of my selected reading discusses how the world and mankind were created. The first story starts off with saying before the gods there was Chaos and unexplainably two…