• Episode 15: Theogony and Works and Days, Part 1 – Ask an Ancient Greek Farmer

  • Sep 13 2024
  • Length: 46 mins
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Episode 15: Theogony and Works and Days, Part 1 – Ask an Ancient Greek Farmer

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  • Our latest episode introduces you to the first personality in European literature: a cranky shepherd-turned-poet who wants you to know that women are a calamitous trap and that you should wear a proper hat in winter. Yes, it's Hesiod, the Ancient Greek forbear of today's op-ed columnists and reply guys. Walk with Rose through Theogony, our earliest-known source for many key Greek myths, and Works and Days, a self-help poem that's also partly a burn letter. Or maybe it's the other way around.


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