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Extract. Hesiod's Works and Days is self-consciously a poem of the Iron Age. It is addressed to Iron Age men about how to manage the Iron Age human condition. The narrative ventures out of the Iron Age only to explain how we got here and how the present age compares to those which came before.
Semonides Fr. 7 is often cited as an especially glaring example of misogyny in ancient Greek culture (Lloyd-Jones; Osborn), but this paper will suggest that such a reading is complicated by Semonides' pointed re-gendering of the simile of the bee taken from Hesiod's Theogony (594-602).
Misogyny (/ m ɪ ˈ s ɒ dʒ ɪ n i /) is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. It is a form of sexism that can keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining the social roles of patriarchy. Misogyny has been widely practised for thousands of years.
2 maj 2018 · The account of the origin of woman and her character (lines 59-69) is misogynistic in the extreme. And where Homer sees women in partnership with men (Penelope with Odysseus, Hecuba with Priam, even Helen with Hector), Hesiod sees women as a punishment:
20 mar 2020 · In his informative introduction to his translation of Hesiod’s work, Theogony and Works and Days (Oxford World’s Classics), M. L. West points out that Works and Days is a somewhat misleading (not to mention odd) title.
8 sie 2018 · This chapter attempts to address the so-called Hesiodic Question: who was Hesiod, when and where did he live, what poems did he compose, and in what order? After a brief overview of ancient thoughts on these matters, modern views are briefly discussed, with particular attention to the several scholarly approaches to the dating of the Hesiodic ...
Hesiod's poems tackle big issues: cosmogony, the relationships between the gods, the relationship between god and man, the relationship between morality and success. His treatment of women in the Pandora episode is part of a 'big issue' discussion: not
