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Sarah asked:

How do I support a Greek Philosopher's Theory such as Hesiod?

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You have me bamboozled. Hesiod was a poet, who wrote up a cosmogony that served as a kind of
basic religious text for the Greeks. In other words, his story is of how the world and the gods came
into existence; and he does it by way of stringing together many episodes, as is customary in epic
literature. Now is this what you wanted to know? If not, you may have to post your question again and
try to clarify whether you are talking about Greek philosophers using Hesiod for their theories or
whether you mean, what kind of philosophy can be extracted from Hesiod or, is Hesiod' a
philosophical theory? All these are possible ways of reading your question.

Jürgen Lawrenz

Sydney