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16264381

Anonymous Tue Sep 1 13:34:34 2020 No.16264381 [Reply] [Original]

What the fuck did I just read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 13:43:55 2020 No.16264433 File: 1016 KB, 500x202, dionysos.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the beginning

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 13:45:06 2020 No.16264441 Life sucks; humanity was made to suffer

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 13:48:24 2020 No.16264461 You read "Works and Days" by Hesiod

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 14:22:32 2020 No.16264646 >justice is based on working for one's livelihood >the source for pandora's myth and the idea that hope is self-deception >women try to steal your grain

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 14:26:07 2020 No.16264667 You just read the best poem ever written, after Homer’s, it’s all going downhill from there.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 14:28:06 2020 No.16264681 >>16264667 Hesiod was a pretty shitty poet

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 15:19:31 2020 No.16265100 >>16264681 Doesn't even really feel like he was trying

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 15:31:00 2020 No.16265193 Basically, the ancient greek equivalent of a boomer lecturing you. There is honestly no real reason to read the poem besides it being important historically.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 15:44:16 2020 No.16265277 >>16265100 He was trying as he's always remarking his blessings from the muses but unfortunately his double digit IQ posed limitations

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 18:14:12 2020 No.16266267 File: 963 KB, 2660x668, 20190721_191913.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16264381

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 1 18:27:22 2020 No.16266357 >>16266267 Amen Based Hesiod