HeroesX v04 Office Hours 05 | The Five Generations of Humankind in Hesiod @KosmosSociety2024

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Discussion about the five generations of humankind in the Hesiodic Works & Days, categorizing humankind as 1 (positive cult hero) and 2 (negative cult hero):, 3 (negative epic hero) and 4 (positive epic hero), 5 the present. Storytelling and categorizing. The fifth generation as the point of reference or completion or recycling. The significance of ‘five’.
Recorded on October 14 2015 during v4 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hour 12 and the Hesiodic Works & Days
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, Claudia Filos
Reference made to chapter 9 “Poetic Categories for the Hero” in ‘Best of the Achaeans’
https://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_NagyG.The_Best_of_the_Achaeans.1999

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