CLST 2101 Chapter : CLST 2101 Unit 1 The World Of Hesiod And Homer Cultural Narrative
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Whether this is true or not, it is certain that we have the poetry of hesiod and homer only because of the development of the alphabet and writing at this time. He says that he became a poet when the muses visited him while he was tending his flock of young sheep (theogony 22-34). Hesiod says that his brother perses bribed judges to obtain more than his fair share of their father"s estate (works and days 27-41). Elsewhere he mentions that their father worked on ships out of economic necessity. Hesiod says that he himself sailed little, but that on one trip he did win a trophy for one of his hymns (works and days 633-62). Mesopotamian myth and eastern wisdom poetry provide clear antecedents for what. The greeks were neighbors and interacted with many peoples to the east in the eighth and seventh centuries bc, so the influence is not surprising, but the transmission is not very clear.
