CLAS-C 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Only Hope, Beautiful Creature, Boeotia
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His father was previously a sea-trader who live in aeolian cyme, in asia minor. Hesiod grew up in ascra, boeotia; also tended sheep on mt. Hesiod"s works and days, which could more appropriately be titled the wisdom of. Works and days is a work of wisdom literature. Hesiod , was written some time after the theogony. The work also includes a great deal of practical information. In both works by hesiod, we see dual themes of dynamic change and unending conflict . Hesiod reported the nine muses taught him the art of singing verse while he was a shepherd on the slopes of mt helicon. In his works and days, hesiod invokes the muses and asks them to sing praise to their father zeus. Easy for zeus to diminish the mighty . Eris is the daughter of night and mother of toil, forgetfulness, famine, pains. In work and days, hesiod distinguishes between two kinds of strife:
