Classical Mythology | Immortals and Mortals (Lecture 6)

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Lecture 6: Hesiod's Theogony, and his poem Works and Days, tells of Prometheus and Pandora. What do these myths—of the Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans, and of the first woman, who unloosed evil in the world—say about the Greek view of society and of women? What sort of gods do we find in Hesiod? What sets them apart from humans?

Lecture 7: https://rumble.com/v4ogm1t-classical-mythology-demeter-persephone-and-the-conquest-of-death-lecture-7.html

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