Now this is how you read a story, great narrating!

I am recently and finally become obsessed with the Greek Pantheon. This is the 1st time I've heard this- it is complete nourishment! I has no idea.... Thank you for your sensitive reading- I needed this more than I realized. 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🪞⚒🪞

Jordan Maxwell introduced me to this work..thanks for the Audiobook.

"A man who puts off work is always at hand's grip with ruin"

"For whoever knows the right and is ready to speak it, far-seeing Zeus gives him prosperity"

"A servant with a child to nurse is troublesome" - Hesiod

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theogony @51:00

Personal bookmarks: 1. 58:22 2. 1:11:21 3. 1:15:44 4. 1:20:55 5. 1:27:48 6. 1:38:35 7. 1:43:05

Hesiod was to Herodotus & Thucydides as Socrates was to Plato and Aristotle.

Reminds me of the book of proverbs.

7:08 ages 9:16 bronze 10:06 Hero-men

51:20 and this word first the goddesses said to me, the muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the ages, "Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true but we know when we will to utter true things." So said the ready-voiced daughters of great Zeus and they... breathed into me a divine voice to celebrate things that shall be and things that were afore time and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally but ever to sing of themselves both first and last but while this about oak or stone come you let us begin with the muses who gladden the great spirit of their father Zeus in Olympus with their songs, telling of things that are and that shall be and that were afore time with consenting voice, unwearying flows the sweet sound from their lips and the house of their father Zeus the loud Thunderer is glad at the lily lake voice of the goddesses as it spreads abroad and the peaks of snowy Olympus resound and the homes of the Immortals. And they, uttering their immortal voice, celebrate in song first of all the revered race of the gods from the beginning those whom earth and wide heaven begot and the gods sprung of these givers of good things. Then next the goddesses sing of Zeus the father of gods and men as they begin and end their strain how much he is the most excellent among the gods and supreme in power. And again they chant the race of men and strong Giants and gladden the heart of Zeus within Olympus The Olympian muses daughters of Zeus the ages holder them in pyuria did Mnemosyne - memory - who reigns over the hills of a Luthor bear of union with the father the son of Chronos a forgetting of ills and arrests from sorrow... nine daughters all of one mind whose hearts are set upon song and whose spirit is free from care a little way from the topmost peak of snowy Olympus there are their bright dancing places in beautiful homes and beside them the graces and I'm Eros desire live in delight and they uttering through their lips a lovely voice sing the laws of all and the goodly ways of the Immortals uttering their lovely voice then went they to Olympus delighting in their sweet voice with heavenly song and the dark earth resounded about them as they chanted and a lovely sound rose up beneath their feet as they went to their father... These things then the muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus... Calliope, who is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes. Whomever of heaven nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honor and behold at his birth they pour sweet dew upon his tongue and from his lips flow gracious words. All the people look towards him while he settles causes with true judgements. And he, speaking surely, would soon make wise and even of a great choral for therefore are their princes wise and heart because when the people are being misguided in their assembly they set right the matter again with 'is persuading them with gentle words and when he passes through a gathering they greet him as a god with gentle reverence and he is conspicuous amongst the assembled such is the holy gift of the muses to men for it is through the muses and far shooting Apollo that there are singers and Harper's upon the earth. But princes are of Zeus. And happy is he whom the muses love. Sweet flows speech from his mouth, for although a man has sorrow and grief in his newly troubled soul and lives in dread because his heart is distressed, yet when a singer the servant of the muses chants the glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabited Olympus, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at all but the gifts of the goddesses soon turn him away from these. 1:24:00 1:40:00

"Do not get base gain, it is as bad as ruin"

Quick, name one wise thing Zeus ever did.

Interesting that the Watchers are mentioned in verse 252. The prophet Daniel mentions them in the Bible.

10:24 Demi gods

M L West was certainly a scholar, but he was certainly not a poet.

7:24 golden race of men

Thank you! My second go-round with Hesiod has been enlightened by a 2012 presentation lecture & documentary now on YT that has absolutely changed how I view these works especially Theogony, but other puzzling ancient cultures! It answers the confusion of "Helios" & "Sol", for example which were not our sun but a planet closer to the earth than today, Saturn. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrlybJaVrLOrlZs.html And others on their channel. And that "shield" of Herakles? The great star, Venus.

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