HESIOD

HESIOD

Boeotia, 8th century B.C.
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS CHAOS
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS CHAOS - HESIOD

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Great Greek poet, father of didactic epic. He was born in Askra in Boeotia, therefore he is called Askraios. With Hesiod, Greece of the eighth and seventh centuries BC emerges from the darkness of myth and begins to be illuminated historically. Cultivator of land under Helicon, he sang between plowing and resting, and recited his odes at gatherings and festivals, giving advice and instructions to farmers and merchants on the cultivation of the fields. He had transferred this knowledge from the more advanced Ionia, from which his merchant father emigrated after he went bankrupt.

Hesiod is the first poet who was interested in the life of ordinary people and the one who opened the way of earthly reality and peaceful work to the ancient bucolic people. According to Aristotle, he died at Askra, when the polychne was destroyed by the Thespians, and the inhabitants had fled to Orchomenos. The Orchomenians searched for the bones of the poet of the epic "Works and Days", took them to Orchomenos and buried them in the center of their market, next to the tomb of their local hero Minya. Hesiod is translated into all the languages ​​of the world.

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  1. WORK IS NOT A SHAME, LAZINESS IS A SHAME
  2. IF YOU DON'T KEEP THE SMALL THINGS, YOU WILL LOSE THE BIG THINGS
  3. TRUST AND LACK OF TRUST SIMILARLY RUINED PEOPLE
  4. DON'T POSTPONE SOMETHING FOR TOMORROW OR THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
  5. IF YOU DEPOSIT ANOTHER SMALL ON TOP OF THE SMALL AND DO THIS OFTEN, QUICKLY THIS WILL BECOME BIG TOO
  6. HALF IS MORE THAN THE WHOLE
  7. BEFORE VIRTUE THE GODS PUT SWEAT, THE ROAD IS SHORT AND UPHILL AND DIFFICULT IN THE BEGINNING, BUT WHEN YOU MAKE IT AND REACH THE END IT IS EASY LATER EVEN IF IT HAS DIFFICULTIES
  8. THE GOOD JUDGE SHOULD BE AN ELDER
  9. A BAD NEIGHBOR IS A MISFORTUNE, JUST AS A GOOD ONE IS A GREAT FORTUNE
  10. AVOID ASSOCIATION WITH THE BAD, DON'T COMPLAIN, DON'T ACCUSE THE GOOD
  11. WORK UNTIL HUNGER HATES YOU
  12. PEACE ON EARTH NOURISHES MAN
  13. WEALTH IS FOLLOWED BY GRACE AND HONOR
  14. THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN A GOOD WOMAN
  15. IF YOU SAY EVIL THINGS SOON YOU WILL HEAR BIGGER EVIL THINGS
  16. AVOID EVIL PROFITS
  17. HUNGER ACCOMPANIES THE IDLE PERSON, THE GODS HATE HIM WHO LIVES IN COMFORT WITHOUT WORKING
  18. WE KNOW HOW TO TELL MANY LIES THAT LOOK LIKE TRUTHS. HOWEVER, WE KNOW WHEN WE WANT TO TELL THE TRUTH
  19. MANY TIMES THE ENTIRE CITY SUFFERS BECAUSE OF ONE EVIL MAN
  20. A BAD REPUTATION IS A HEAVY BURDEN, IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE IT
  21. WORK IS THE BEST
  22. HE WHO POSTPONEES HIS WORK ALWAYS STRUGGLES WITH DIFFICULTIES
  23. IF THERE IS NO BAD NEIGHBOR, AN OX CANNOT BE LOST
  24. WHEN ONE VOLUNTARILY ATTESTS WITH OATH WHAT IS NOT TRUE, HE HURTS PEOPLE TOO MUCH
  25. RETURN LOVE WITH LOVE AND HELP THOSE WHO HELP YOU. GIVE TO WHOM HE GIVES YOU AND DON'T GIVE TO THOSE THAT DON'T GIVE YOU
  26. MONEY IS FOR US POOR MORTALS
  27. IT IS A GREAT BAD FOR THE SON OF A GOOD FATHER NOT TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM
  28. WHEN THE LAWS ARE FAIRLY APPLIED TO NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS ALIKE, WITHOUT EVER VIOLATING THE LAW, THEN THE STATE PROSPERES AND ITS CITIZENS ARE HAPPY
  29. PEACE IS THE LOVING MOTHER OF THE EARTH AND ZEUS WHO FORESEES ALL, DOES NOT SEND DESTRUCTIVE WARS TO THESE COUNTRIES
  30. IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS CHAOS