Episode 8: Before Orthodoxy (Hesiod's Theogony)
Literature and History
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What Is Dactylic Hexameter?
The lyre and alos were literature's best friends in the ancient Mediterranean basin. A good deal of Greek poetry, Hesiod's not excluded, was composed in a meter called Dactylic Hexameter. Six hundred years later, when Roman writers began to create satires of epics, they used this same meter.
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