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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:
48 quotes from Hesiod: 'But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.', 'That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel.
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.
Works and Days Quotes Showing 1-7 of 7. “A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it”. ― Hesiod, Works and Days. 32 likes.
Anna Conser. 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).
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