CLST 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olympia, Greece, Citycentre, Phoenician Alphabet
6 Oct 2017
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View of the community in works and days. Selling and buying abroad are an option, but it is viewed with suspicion. Wealth gives power: better to be in a position to give, rather than to receive, being owed something constitutes honour, which is important in honour culture, more important than birth or position. Hesiod is very cynical in his view of money. You can inherit land from you father or build on occupied land: at this point, all available farmland is used and it causes problems down the line. By-gone races were better, but not perfect (first race was the best, second was inferior, third was better, fourth, and modern race, was terrible) Generation that went to troy were the race of heroes. Current generation is the race of iron: morally degenerate and gets worse everyday (this is a shot at perses but also really feels this in his heart, almost apocalyptic to him, eventually cities will be sacked.
