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Calliope: Muse of Eloquence

Calliope Mourning Homer, by Jacques Louis David

Written by Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “Sing, O Muse, of the man of many devices…” Line one of the Odyssey begins like so many in ancient literature, by invoking the muses or gods. It was a common practice to ask, thank, and implore the other-worldly forces for inspiration and guidance in writing and

Written on January 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Apollo, calliope, Hesiod, Homer, muses

Circe: Justice for the Witch

By Katherine Smyth, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom If you think you know the story of Circe, the witch of Aeaea and the seducer of the hero Odysseus, think again. There’s more to her story than is widely publicized or acknowledged, but to understand how Circe became one of ancient Greek mythology’s most notorious women you

Written on September 30, 2019 at 3:14 pm, by Katherine Smyth

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Categories: Monsters

Tags: Aeaea, Agrius, Circe, Hesiod, Homer, Latinus, Odysseus, Odyssey, Penelope, Perses, Telegonus

Titans of Greek Mythology

Okay, today we are talking about the Titans of Greek mythology. Now, of course there are a lot of sources when it comes to discussing ancient Greek mythology, but we are going to use Hesiod’s Theogony, which is sort of like the Bible of the ancient Greek world. So first, what is a Titan? Titans

Written on March 5, 2019 at 4:07 pm, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Gods

Tags: Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Fall of the Titans, Greek Mythology Titans, Hesiod, Hyperion, Iapetus, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Olympians, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys., Thea, Themis, Theogony, Titanomachia, Titans

Hesiod, a Poet of Agriculture and Peace

By Eldar Balta, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Long before Herodotus fathered History and did his best to chronicle the past deeds of humankind, the true recorders of men and Gods were the ancient Greek poets, one of which was Hesiod. Even though the exact time of his life is unknown, Herodotus’ estimation puts him (as

Written on October 26, 2018 at 12:25 am, by plato

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Categories: Poets

Tags: Alcaeus of Messene, Ancient Poets, Delphic Oracle, epic poetry, Hesiod, Homer, Locris, Nemea, The, Theogony, Works and Days

Women in Antiquity

By Ben Potter The idea that women in antiquity were housebound is obviously ridiculous… and, paradoxically, true. That is to say, the ‘ideal’, in ancient Athens certainly, is that a woman should be neither seen nor heard, but pervade an aura of feminine invisibility. For example, Pericles (reported by Thucydides) addressed the women of Athens

Written on November 21, 2014 at 5:11 pm, by plato

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Categories: Traditions

Tags: Agrippina, Ancient Women, Antigone, Ben Potter, Dr. John Winkler, feminist, Hesiod, Lesley Dean-Jones, Livia, pericles, Plato, Robin Osborne, Roman women, Sophocles, Spartan women, Thucydides

Who is Hesiod?

By Ben Potter Regular readers will recall our discussion on the dubious and debated identification of Homer i.e. was he one man or two? Was he a woman? Was he a school of poets and compilers? Homer’s contemporary, the Boeotian Hesiod, if anything, is even more troublesome in this respect. Like with Homer, two poems

Written on August 29, 2014 at 11:22 am, by plato

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Categories: Poets

Tags: epic poetry, Greek Mythology, Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days

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