Tag: Hesiod
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Memory and History
Inspired by the passage from Plutarch quoted below. Memory[i] and history are inextricably linked, the latter having its origin in the former. With their typical perceptiveness the Greeks recognized this lineage, all the arts descend from memory and the God. Hesiod: [The muses] in Pieria[ii] did Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther,…
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Hesiod, Works and Days
For acquisition means life to miserable mortals; but it is an awful thing to die among the waves (685)
Dan Yingst 