Hesiod

Why Sex Robots Are Ancient History

Edit IFL Science 05 May 2016

The sexbots are coming. To a bedroom near you ... Not both ... What’s more, we might remember that the Pygmalion story itself replicates the original anti-feminist “robot” narrative – Greek poet Hesiod’s account of the creation of Pandora in his Works and Days – a “beautiful evil” (kalon kakon) – and the first in a long line of sex robots whose existence has stretched from Ancient Greece and Rome to a warehouse in modern California ... ....

A comedian has the perfect response to people who call millennials entitled and narcissistic

Edit Vox 21 Mar 2016

But there's just one problem. Millennials don't exist. Obviously, young people who fit in the common definition of millennials do, indeed, exist ... Specifically, Conover took on the common image of millennials — one that the Times perpetuated in its recent piece — as an entitled, narcissistic generation ... Here is Greek economist Hesiod, who lived nearly 2,800 years ago, describing younger generations in a way that might sound very familiar....

The Homeric Hymns and Herne the Hunter by Peter McDonald review – audacious and authoritative insights

Edit The Guardian 18 Mar 2016

A classical translation and a moving new collection make for a double achievement ... According to the first of these, the translator “must have as much talent, or at least the same kind of talent, as the author he chooses” ... she is the oldest of all; ... Herne the Hunter is his first collection since his Collected Poems of 2012 and numbers among its classical touches a translation from Hesiod and a portrait of Orion the hunter ... ....

Poster poems: Didactic verse

Edit The Guardian 05 Feb 2016

It’s not much practised, but there’s a strong tradition of how-to poems, from Virgil to Henry Reed. So this month it’s your turn to teach ... This didactic tradition dates back at least as far as Hesiod’s farming manual Works and Days, with its emphasis on the value of hard work. For Hesiod, labour is both inevitable and ethically desirable, being humanity’s greatest safeguard against unnecessary strife ... Similarly, Grace Paley’s House ... ....

Flat Wrong: The Misunderstood History Of Flat Earth Theories

Edit IFL Science 29 Jan 2016

For most people, being described as a “flat Earther” is an insult. The idea of the Earth being flat is considered not only wrong, but a model of wrongness, the gold standard of being incorrect about something. This being so, oddly enough, most people described pejoratively as “flat Earthers” do not actually believe that the Earth is flat ... Edge Of The World ... Both the poets Homer and Hesiod described a flat Earth ... Turtles All The Way Down ... ....

Should Darth Vader Sit at Hercules' Table?

Edit Huffington Post 27 Jan 2016

When I visited the exhibition "Founding Myths" at Mus�e du Louvre in Paris few weeks ago, I was surprised to see a statue of Hercules standing next to Darth Vader's original bust. Is George Lucas really the Homer of our times? Maybe. But there were few contradictions that unsettled me ... This "structural" core emphasizes how men use myths to reflect ... The first poets who brought us the Ancient Greek myths were Hesiod and Homer ... ....

Awaiting The Messiah of Tunisia

Edit Huffington Post 18 Jan 2016

Even if Bourguiba has emerged in the Tunisian political scene as a successful patriot, he can't erase the memory of another popular patriot, the martyred union leader Farhat Hached, who would have definitely given Tunisia a very different identity ... anger and bravery ... According to Hesiod's in Works and Days, when Pandora let all the evils of the world escape, Elpis remained trapped at the bottom of the jar, the famous Pandora's box ... ....

The nighttime landscape and the need for a reorientation of public lighting

Edit Kathimerini 08 Jan 2016

But how allegorical can lighting for cross-examination be considered to be?. Can any form of violence ever be taken to be friendly, or be credited, even, with any other suggestion of good intention? ... Night with us is, then, a synaeresis of a quality of Time and a quality of Light. Erebus and Night were needed, according to Hesiod, for day to result – that is, another pair, of Time and Light, equally by synaeresis ... ....

Five ways that your dog might be Cerberus

Edit The Examiner 05 Jan 2016

According to the ASPCA, it's estimated that 70 to 80 million dogs are owned in the U.S. As Greek mythology tells us there is one dog that is best known and that dog is Cerberus. So if you are a dog owner, you might want to read these five ways that your dog could indeed be Cerberus ... 1. Your dog guards the entrance of the underworld ... 2 ... Hesiod's "Theogony," said that Cerberus had fifty heads, while other legends say he only had three heads....

Top 10 Leadership Tips

Edit Forbes 03 Jan 2016

In a new bookM.A. Soupios and I co-authored,TheTen Golden Rules of Leadership, we share scores of leadership tips of great thinkers, Aristotle, Plato, Thales, and Hesiod. Here are my top ten tips. The most lethal distortions come not from the lips of our opponents or competitors. They tend to flow, instead, [...] ... ....

Post-Hope America Opens Pandora's Box

Edit Huffington Post 30 Dec 2015

Americans just dedicated an entire month to exchanging gift-wrapped boxes with family and friends. When the bows came off the well-intentioned presents, some of them were treasured, and some were tossed into the forgotten corners of a dark closet. Busy lives promptly resumed. How many people paused to think about whether their loved ones got what they really wanted? ... Look closely ... "Be careful ... excerpt from Hesiod's Work and Days, II. 54-59....

Wookie books: the science fiction that inspired George Lucas's Star Wars

Edit The Guardian 04 Dec 2015

Star Wars made science fiction a cultural phenomenon, but the film’s origins lie in other texts, and ancient myths conceived a long time ago, in civilisations far, far away. It’s remarkable how many science-fiction fans hate Star Wars ... A New Hope ... Twitter ... The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell ... Today it’s easier to list the books and films that haven’t pillaged Hesiod as a bankable source of blockbuster entertainment ... ....

The Gospel Of Barnabas

Edit Minds 20 Nov 2015

 . . And let this suffice you,' said Jesus, 'for the knowledge of paradise.' Whereupon Bartholomew ;said again ... 'Paradise is surely great ... For Hesiode, the Earth was separated from the Heaven by a distance of nine days and nine nights, and from the hell also by nine days and nights ... For Hesiode, the Earth was separated from the Heaven by a distance of nine days and nine nights, and from the hell also by nine days and nights....

'Hesiod' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Halfway to Hell (2009)

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Famous quotes by Hesiod:

"If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much."

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only humans, and disorder is our worst enemy"

"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it."

"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor."

"When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness"

"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing"

"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace"

"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning"

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint."

"For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one."

"When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness."

"Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace."

"Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame."

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."

"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."

"He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner."

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