2/6 Hesiod Writing Assignment

1. What do you think this myth tells about the ancient Greeks? What values did they have? Why would a story like this develop?

People who lived during that time era had many questions about how life worked and what created it (not as if we still don't have these questions) and the lack of any scientific knowledge only made it easier for the mind to wander into outlandish or creative conclusions. These people decided that they wanted an answer to the unanswerable so they made one up. This also tells us about their very radical difference compared to our society's invisible laws today. For example the eating of human was not uncommon and was acted out as a celebration for various different reasons including the belief of gaining powers. Clearly, society's norms and individual thought didn't regard the murder of a fellow human as being repulisive but rather not very important. You are able to tell this by the abrasive killing and off-the-cuff murder that was occuring simply to accomplish a task.