Tuesday, June 20, 2023
The Mind of Zeus
Hesiod, Works and Days 483-484 (tr. M.L. West):
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Yet the mind of Zeus the aegis-bearer is different at different times,Hesiod, fragment 253 (tr. Glenn W. Most):
and hard for mortal men to recognize.
ἄλλοτε δ' ἀλλοῖος Ζηνὸς νόος αἰγιόχοιο,
ἀργαλέος δ' ἄνδρεσσι καταθνητοῖσι νοῆσαι.
There is not even one seer among human beings on the earth
who could know the mind of aegis-bearing Zeus.
μάντις δ' οὐδ' εἷς ἐστιν ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων
ὅστις ἂν εἰδείη Ζηνὸς νόον αἰγιόχοιο.
