By Jenny Strauss Clay
This examine unearths the team spirit of Hesiod's imaginative and prescient of the Cosmos by way of analyzing either his poems as complementary halves of an entire embracing the human and divine cosmos. within the Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod, approximately modern with Homer, doesn't describe the deeds of the heroes. He presents as an alternative the earliest finished account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the character of human existence that turned the root for later Greek literature and philosophy.
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40 Orientations: the Works and Days will soon recover her voice; if the poet can manage to ally himself with the demos, those who depend on the kings, the contest may even out. Perses stands for all those who foolishly believe that the corrupt kings benefit them. Hesiod’s strategy requires winning over Perses so that the kings can then be confronted with a united front. 28 Perses must not cultivate Hybris, “for hybris is burdensome for a deil`ov brot´ov (like Perses), but even for an sql´ov (that is to say, a king) she is a heavy burden” and leads to certain disaster.
Yet if we stick close to the text, a comprehensible scenario emerges. Apparently, the two brothers divided their father’s kl¦rov, presumably land. 13 The probably sarcastic accusation, mga kuda©nwn, “greatly glorifying” the kings (38), is maddeningly vague; it could refer to court fees or to bribes, mere flattery, or to an intentionally muddy combination of all of these. Moreover, although Perses may have undertaken dishonest litigation (which, however, had not succeeded in enriching him), there is no clear evidence that such litigation ever involved Hesiod.
For from her [Metis] it was destined that children of outstanding intelligence would be born. (888–94) Despite the obvious similarities in these passages, Hesiod’s language indicates a subtle but important difference; Cronus learned – how, we know not – of his destined overthrow from Gaia. But only in the second case does Gaia take an active role, when she warns and advises Zeus how to evade the threat of succession and thus to stabilize the cosmos under his eternal rule. Zeus’s preemptive strike succeeds where Cronus’ had failed.