Hesiod's Theogony: an excerpt

자료: Google Books, Hesiod: Theogony, Works and days, Testimonia

(공)저: Hesiod, Glenn W. Most

번역자 Glenn W. Most

Edition: 3

출판사: Harvard University Press, 2006

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...... It gnawed deeply at high-thundering Zeus' spirit and enraged his dear heart, when he saw the far-seen gleam of fire among human beings. Immediately he contrived an evil for human beings in exchange for fire. For the much-renowned Lame One(=Hephaestus) forged from earth the semblance of a reverend maiden by the plans of Cronus' son; and the goddess, bright-eyed Athena, girdled and adorned her with silvery clothing, and with her hands she hung a highly wrought veil from her head, a wonder to see; and around her head Pallas Athena placed freshly budding garlands that arouse desire, the flowers of the meadow; and around her head she placed a golden headband, which the much-renouned Lame One made himself, working it with his skilled hands, to do a favor for Zeus the father. On this were contrived many designs, highly wrought, a wonder to see, all the terrible monsters the land and the see nourich; he put many of these onto it, wondrous, similar to living animals endowed with speech, and gracegulness breathed upon them all.

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Then, when he had contrived this beautiful evil thing in exchange for that good one(=fire), he led her out to where the other gods and the humanbeings were, while she exulted in the adornment of the mighty father's bright-eyed daughter(=Athena); and wonder gripped the immortal gods and the mortal human beings when they saw the steep deception, intractable for human beings. For from her comes the race of female women: for of her is the deadly race and tribe of women, a great woe for mortals, dwelling with men, no companions of baneful poverty but only of luxury. As wehn bees in vaulted beehives nourish the drones, partners in evil works--all day long until the sun goes down, every day, the bees hasten and set up the white honey-combs, while the drones remain inside among the vaulteed beehives and gather into their own stomachs the labor of others--in just the same way high-thundering Zeus set up women as an evil for mortal men, as partners in distressful works. And he bestows another evil thing in exchange for that good one: ....