Liv Reads Hesiod: The Theogony (Part 1)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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Zeus, the Aegis Holder, and the Daughters of Great Zeus, Who Hold the Egis
Daughter of zeus, shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies. We know how to speak many false things as though they were true. But we know when we will to utter true things. One day they taught hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy helicon. They plucked and gave me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a marvellous thing,. And breathed into me a divine voice to celebrate things that shall be and things ther er aforetime. The muses who gladden the great spirit of their father zeus in olympus with their songs.
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