PHIL 1120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Theogony, Aeschylus
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In his works and days, hesiod is also less interested in glorifying zeus less than he is in the theogony. He instead wasn"t to impress on his brother. Perses how hard life is, and how hard perses should be working to support himself. In this version zeus appears the stern taskmaster, anxious to punish. By the time aeschylus was writing, human technology had advanced far beyond its state in 700 bc. Aeschylus has prometheus take credit for all of it. The prometheus bound dwells on the punishment of prometheus and its eventual end. But for the story of humanity, the earlier story, of prometheus" advocacy for humanity and deception of zeus, hesiod is more important. Theogony and works and days are essentially the same, but he emphasizes different elements in the two accounts and the order of the narrative is different. In the theogony, premetheus initial trick is described most fully.
