The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not have the meaning there that it has in modern languages; ...

Hesiod and his brother, Perses, had inherited a large estate from their parents, but Perses had squandered his half and was bribing local officials to let him seize Hesiod's share as well.

Bad’s had for the taking, woes galore, The road is smooth and short—She lives next door. The strait and narrow path the gods have set To Virtue is steep and long and paved with sweat. It’s hard going ...

Hesiod and his brother, Perses, had inherited a large estate from their parents, but Perses had squandered his half and was bribing local officials to let him seize Hesiod's share as well.

—Hesiod, Works and Days lns. 42-60, 90-105 (ca. 700 BCE)(H.G. Evelyn-White transl. 1914) The legend of Pandora exists in many forms in the literature of antiquity, but the recounting of the Homeric ...

The ancient Greeks named the world’s first created woman not Eve but kalon kakon—“the beautiful-evil thing,” in the words of the poet Hesiod.He came from Cyme, in modern-day Turkey, and ...

He was, perhaps, the first known “born-again believer.” He was an ordinary working man by birth, a farmer who had trials in his family, and at one point managed a living as a rustic s… ...

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