lyx
Written on Dec 9, 2021
The Theogony is a dry but okay read, "Works and Days" is just Hesiod talking about stuff he thinks he knows best as a way to give his brother advice (more like a lecture on life *sigh*), mixed with a huge load of sexism. Not that I don't expect that in ancient texts, but this was on a whole new level.
It's useful to study other (later) ancient texts and to an extend to see the zeitgeist of the time, but I struggled hard to get through this like 100-page text.