>**”Homer deserves to be expelled from the competitions and beaten with a staff!!!”**
Diogenes Laertius:
>**”Hieronymos says that when Pythagoras went down into Hades he saw the ghost of Hesiod bound to a bronze pillar, squeaking, and that Homer’s ghost was hanging from a tree surrounded by snakes. They were being punished for the things they said about the gods.”**
Plato:
>”We must not let poets tell [children] that the gods are the authors of evils… God is not the author of all things, but of the good only.”
Xenophanes :
>”Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.”
Frangiskos Grimesicles:
>”No! Homer is not okay! And I want everyone in Athens to realize it! I would die a happy man if I could prove to you that Homer… has the intelligence of a 6-year-old!”
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Did later Greeks believe in more benevolent God’s or it just so happened that all the Olympian stories that survived where the ones written by guys who didn’t believe in benevolence.
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Achilles be like that after losing his best bro
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BART!!
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I’ve said it before but it’s worth saying again: thank you Homer for writing that fire (yes I do believe Homer was an individual). We can still read these stories 2,800 years later thanks to authors like you.
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Heraclitus:
>**”Homer deserves to be expelled from the competitions and beaten with a staff!!!”**
Diogenes Laertius:
>**”Hieronymos says that when Pythagoras went down into Hades he saw the ghost of Hesiod bound to a bronze pillar, squeaking, and that Homer’s ghost was hanging from a tree surrounded by snakes. They were being punished for the things they said about the gods.”**
Plato:
>”We must not let poets tell [children] that the gods are the authors of evils… God is not the author of all things, but of the good only.”
Xenophanes :
>”Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.”
Frangiskos Grimesicles:
>”No! Homer is not okay! And I want everyone in Athens to realize it! I would die a happy man if I could prove to you that Homer… has the intelligence of a 6-year-old!”
Did later Greeks believe in more benevolent God’s or it just so happened that all the Olympian stories that survived where the ones written by guys who didn’t believe in benevolence.
Achilles be like that after losing his best bro
BART!!
I’ve said it before but it’s worth saying again: thank you Homer for writing that fire (yes I do believe Homer was an individual). We can still read these stories 2,800 years later thanks to authors like you.