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Hesiod: Farmer, Poet, Misogynist

“[Hesiod’s] personality behind the poems is unsuited to the kind of ‘aristocratic withdrawal’ typical of a rhapsode but is instead argumentative, suspicious, ironically humorous, frugal, fond of proverbs, wary of women.” — The Oxford History of the Classical World Misogyny — hatred of or contempt for women — goes back a long way, at least […]

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