Notes on the Works and Days of HesiodUniversity of Chicago, 1918 - 226 pages |
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... popular conceptions repulsive to the more refined Ionic taste . But the style is epic rather than the concise didactic style of the Works , and the sequence of ideas is less abrupt and more logical . In parts it falls into the style of ...
... popular conceptions repulsive to the more refined Ionic taste . But the style is epic rather than the concise didactic style of the Works , and the sequence of ideas is less abrupt and more logical . In parts it falls into the style of ...
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... friendship ( 695-723 ) , followed by various popular supersitions ( 724-764 ) ; 2nd , a calendar of lucky and unlucky days ( 765-828 ) . The proem begins by invoking the Muses to celebrate Zeus 8 NOTES ON THE WORKS AND DAYS OF HESIOD.
... friendship ( 695-723 ) , followed by various popular supersitions ( 724-764 ) ; 2nd , a calendar of lucky and unlucky days ( 765-828 ) . The proem begins by invoking the Muses to celebrate Zeus 8 NOTES ON THE WORKS AND DAYS OF HESIOD.
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... popular superstitions , perhaps not by Hesiod , though most of the material may go back to his time or even earlier . It may roughly be divided into two parts : 695-764 containing general precepts and popular superstitions and 765-828 ...
... popular superstitions , perhaps not by Hesiod , though most of the material may go back to his time or even earlier . It may roughly be divided into two parts : 695-764 containing general precepts and popular superstitions and 765-828 ...
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... popular sources , and that they already existed in some form before their insertion in the Works and Days . The question is whether a man facing a serious crisis , as Hesiod apparently was , and writing such direct and personal appeals ...
... popular sources , and that they already existed in some form before their insertion in the Works and Days . The question is whether a man facing a serious crisis , as Hesiod apparently was , and writing such direct and personal appeals ...
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... popular form of the myth may not have contained the age of heroes , the process of decadence is here designedly interrupted by it to show that regeneration is possible ; else why does the poet admonish so strenuously to work and justice ...
... popular form of the myth may not have contained the age of heroes , the process of decadence is here designedly interrupted by it to show that regeneration is possible ; else why does the poet admonish so strenuously to work and justice ...
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Page 183 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
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Page 121 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 116 - But mercy is above this sceptred sway, — It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; VOL.
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Page 99 - Kronos create upon the bounteous earth, a juster race and better, a godlike race of hero men who are called demigods, the earlier race upon the boundless earth.