But at the same time he felt that they had lost all sincere consistency, all interior heroism: and therefore he continually exerted the goad of criticism around them; he discussed them on purpose, or instinctively deformed them, lowered them, humiliated them: he reduced facts and mythical characters to the proportions of ordinary bourgeois life. In Euripides, therefore, the heroic world, which from Homer had gradually diminished but in Aeschylus had…
Read MoreGreece Literature – Hesiod Part II
The Hesiodic poetry must in reality be connected with the cyclical one, of which it is contemporary. In fact it represents, like the cycle, the decay of the fantastic and heroic spirit in the generations following Homer; and it is channeled, together with that, into the same riverbed that will lead to history and philosophy. This does not mean that in Hesiod – in the compositions that belong to his…
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The epic poetry of the motherland did not have the splendor of oriental production: it stood in more arid and narrower terrain; it responded to the modest living conditions that were typical of the Greek continent. The main representative of it was Hesiod: whose name is linked a number of works (preserved only in part), which make him appear as a leader, as the initiator of a tradition and a…
Read MoreHiking Between Villages and Mountain Peaks
Vikos-Aoos National Park is located in northern Greece, near the border with Albania – an unknown gem and one of the most untouched areas in Greece. You will not meet many other tourists here which together a wild and untouched nature makes this place completely unique. The journey begins in Athens from where you travel to Vikos-Aoos National Park in northern Greece. On this hiking trip you cross the impressive Vikos gorge…
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