December 19, 2023

Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles - Hesiod - Full Audiobook

2 hours 29 minutes

This an unbiblical stylized argument among reprobate spirits who hate God, the created order, and it's lifting of man above angels.
The rough cast:
Chronos = The Most High (portrayed terribly)
Zeus = Helel ben Shahar (the original rebel)
Prometheus = Satan (the scapegoat) ?
And a cascading cavalcade of chaotic characters who create chaos and covetousness in our otherwise cautiously created creation.

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From: LibriVox Audiobooks YouTube Channel

Read by: Arthur Krolman

English

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - 01 - Works and Days

00:51:26 - 02 - The Theogony

01:58:09 - 03 - The Shield of Heracles

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Info From InfoGalactic:

Works and Days (Ancient Greek: Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι Érga kaì Hēmérai)[lower-alpha 1] is a didactic poem written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts.

Scholars have seen this work against a background of agrarian crisis in mainland Greece, which inspired a wave of colonial expeditions in search of new land. In the poem, Hesiod also offers his brother extensive moralizing advice on how he should live his life. Works and Days is perhaps best known for its two mythological aetiologies for the toil and pain that define the human condition: the story of Prometheus and Pandora, and the so-called Myth of Five Ages.

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The Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, [tʰeoɡoníaː], i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods"[1]) is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC.[2] It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines.

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The Shield of Heracles (Ancient Greek: Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους, Aspis Hērakleous) is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly.

It has been suggested that this epic may reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War: in the epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians. This was a pastiche made to be sung at a Boeotian festival at midsummer at the hottest time of the dogstar Sirios.[1]

To serve as an introduction, fifty-six lines have been taken from the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. The late 3rd- and early 2nd-century BC critic Aristophanes of Byzantium, who considered the Catalogue to be the work of Hesiod, noted the borrowing, which led him to suspect that the Shield was spurious.[2] The poem takes its cue from the extended description of the shield of Achilles in Iliad xviii, from which it borrows directly, with a single word altered:

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