HUM 102W Lecture Notes - Homeric Hymns, Starry Sky, List Of Saint Seiya Episode.G Characters
27 Mar 2014
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Before discussing the myth of the origin of the world and the gods, it"s worthwhile for us to consider who told the story. As i mentioned in the introduction, all the greeks credited hesiod and homer for their basic understanding of their gods. On the basis of linguistic evidence, experts date hesiod"s poetry to approximately 700 bc; they debate whether he lived and wrote before or after homer. Like homer, however, hesiod wrote basically in the ionic dialect of the aegean islands and central coastline of asia. Minor, and he wrote in the epic form of dactylic hexameter. In his poetry he suggests a little more: You yourself wait until the season for sailing is come. Then haul your swift ship down to the sea and stow a convenient cargo in it, so that you may bring home profit, even as your father and mind, foolish. Perses, used to sail on shipboard because he lacked sufficient livelihood.
