CLA 395 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Theogony, Lard, Vietnamese Pot-Bellied
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Daughters of zeus that are responsible for artistic and scientific inspiration. They said to hesiod listen, you country bumpkins, you pot-bellied blockheads, we know how to tell many lies that pass for truth, and when we wish, we know to tell the truth itself, (26-28). Basically tell us to take the myth with a grain of salt. God created man, earth, animals, the solar system, etc. pure and simple. Greek mythology included a lot of unscientific procreation. Genesis states everything as true, whereas theogony states things as. This blasphemous statement assumes that the fever dream of theogony is more scientific just because the muses are saying it may or may not be true. You"d have to assume that the muses ever existed to make that comparison.
