#works and days

[dionysusmybeloved]

I decided to make a post on this since I kinda forgot to make a separate one from the master-list, but I wanted to share that I've made a free library of resources to use!

Which includes:

• The Theogony, Works and Days, The Shield

• The Odyssey and Illiad

• The Homeric and Orphic Hymns

• The Library by Apollodorus

• Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship

and many more books / plays (Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Sophocles), secondary resources on Dionysus, etc.

also, you can message me to add some books and resources, I'll try to add it to the best of my ability (I'm uploading Euripides I to IV tomorrow probably)

[lucybellwood]

My mother made the mistake of mentioning Hesiod tonight which meant I got to launch into a dramatic recitation of that bit where he’s hollering about not approaching your hearth with a messy wang

[brimo5]

I believe that when Zeus lives with his chthonic family, he always covers his face because his eyes are the sun, which is too bright for the shades of the underworld.

[sawbeaver]

You are a pithos made by God.

[housewifebuck]

clocking in for my daily shift of "tell cam to finish the OnlyFans Buck fic" 😊

Ok i realize this only really works if I actually check my tumblr inbox but umm. Anyway here’s a snippet for ur troubles

[ditoob]

In LOVE with the myth that Hesiod and Homer had a singing battle in ancient Greece (they had the original rap beef I suppose)

[lionofchaeronea]

For easily he grants one strength, easily kneecaps the strong, Easily shrinks the seen-by-all and increases the unseen, Easily makes the crooked straight and withers the courageous-- Zeus the Thunderer-on-High, who dwells within the highest halls. ῥέα μὲν γὰρ βριάει, ῥέα δὲ βριάοντα χαλέπτει, ῥεῖα δ᾽ ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ᾽ ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει Ζεὺς ὑψιβρεμέτης, ὃς ὑπέρτατα δώματα ναίει. -Hesiod, Works and Days 5-8

[mythinart]

pandora by john william waterhouse (1896)

[that-cunning-witch]

"Do not stand upright facing the sun when you make water, but remember to do this when he has set towards his rising." (Hesiod, Works and Days)

Me, staring at the toilet in my dorm that faces north-east: *sweats nervously*

[blackbyrenflowers]

Reading Hesiod's work is sort of like reading a long historical text where the author takes random breaks throughout to talk about how women are the root of all evil

[zagan-akerman]

Inktober Día 24 - Pandora

Y aquella mujer, levantando la tapa de un gran vaso que tenía en sus manos esparció sobre los hombres las miserias horribles. Únicamente la Esperanza quedó en el vaso, detenida en los bordes, y no echó a volar porque Pandora había vuelto a cerrar la tapa por orden de Zeus tempestuoso que amontona las nubes.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Pat Bagley : Salt Lake Tribune

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"There is a noise when Justice is being dragged in the way where those who devour bribes and give sentence with crooked judgements, take her. And she, wrapped in mist, follows to the city and haunts of the people, weeping, and bringing mischief to men, even to such as have driven her forth in that they did not deal straightly with her." ゆ "Talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even Talk is in some ways divine." - Hesiod translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White Works and Days

[alive on all channels]

[theriverbeyond]

Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

[the-eccentric-eclectic]

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself