#hesiod

How do you subvert the Epic?

Some may know my current undertaking is a poetry epic. Unlike the most epics, which are a flowing river of lines and stanzas, this epic is…

Greek Mythology: Hesiod’s Five Ages

Hesiod’s Five Ages provided an important framework for Greek myth and later historical frameworks. He describes a general descent of man.

The Law of Deterioration

The Extrinsic Self is always ‘on the outside’ — it’s always ‘on the outside, looking in’. It can’t ever partake in life, even though it…

Hesiod in Early Middle English

Following on from yesterday [‘Homer in Old English’] and by the same logic — that is, translating selections from different stages of…

The Decay Function

We degrade life by thinking about it — it’s a ‘bigger event’ than we perceive it to be, in other words. It somehow becomes commonplace…

The Greek “Creation” Myth according to Hesiod, Theogony

Greek Mythology-Hesiod’s Works and Days

Full text: https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodWorksDays.html

Greek Mythology-Hesiod’s Theogony

Full Text: https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheogony.html