#Hesiod I have some bad news for ya buddy
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Hesiod’s Work and Days basically boiling down to “you piece of shit return my stuff or burn in hell”
it’s literally just long winded hate mail to his brother.
#I was looking up specifics on the Greek creation myth#and somehow ended up reading the entire poem#I’m pretty sure work and days is just a long tantrum#can y’all imagine taking something of your brother’s and he sends you over 8k words of ‘listen you shit this is what the Bible says’#I don’t know what’d be funnier#Hesiod throwing a fit because some king divided the inheritance up unevenly and gave most of it to Perses#or the king make a small error and accidentally giving slightly more to perses then he gave to Hesiod and Hesiod being a stickler about it#a) implies that the king knew full well what he was doing and that’s just what was supposed to happen#and b) would mean Hesiod’s being petty over penny’s#like sure Hesiod claims this occurred because perses tricked the king and stole away with the more then his share#but reading it I kept going ‘did he really though??’#Hesiod just seems like a little bitch ngl#I find it hard to believe that a king dividing up the inheritance didn’t notice perses taking most of the wealth#also I just sympathize more with crazy relations sending biblically backed hate mail#besides say perses really did steal majority of the inheritance#what kind of whacko actually thinks their theif of a brother would read a long winded ‘Zeus will smite you’ letter and be like ‘my bad’#Hesiod I have some bad news for ya buddy#also#i had an epiphany#mythology is basically just a bunch of fanfiction#but the original work got lost at some point#so now the only way to know what the original content said is to read all the fanfiction and squint#have you ever tried reading fanfiction for something you’ve never read/watched??#and you just kinda have to piece canon together from what’s most commonly written#yea it’s like that#siblings#sibling relationship#Hesiod#Greek mythology#shitpost
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