When I try to think of an interesting person with whom I
would like to speak to ask questions, my mind jumps between many people, a lot of
them ancient Greeks and, as I cannot write of all, I will write of the most
interesting of them, Hesiodo.
Hesiod is a thinker, philosopher, Greek writer, he wrote
about the myths of his gods but because he really believed that they existed
and created the world I like to see him as a historian.
One of the reasons I love it and I find it very interesting
is that it was one of the first to write the myths that were transmitted by
speech, when stories were told from parents to children, also not only wrote
the theogony, he also wrote works and days, a text that explains how his
society worked, it seems to me that he had a vision that the future would want
to know about them, I think he should be the father of history and not Herodoto,
although Herodoto also thought like that and has value, but Hesiod lived at
least 200 years before.
One of the weird things in my life is that I was always more
interested in history than in fiction tales, and in history, the older the more
interesting and mysterious I find it, the understanding of the civilizations of
that time is very interesting and how his cosmovision affected the way of life
and the way of living in his social structure, his technological advances and
with that the structures that they generated to habit, so from a very young age
I read the Greek myths and imagined where they came from and how magical they
were, so when I hear about Hesiodo I was really young and I don't remember
precisely when. My dad was a math teacher but he still liked history and he had
a small collection of books about it, especially the GREDOS collection and
recommended them to me I think that the first book of those that I read was Esotopo
fables, and I don't know when I got to Hesiodo and his theogony, I have read it
many times but as I also read other myths they mix them so I need to read it
again.
I think that if I could see him I would ask him about his
life, how he sees the world, I would like to fill the incomplete text of him.
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