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"...Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?" Interesting rebuttal to the historical claim that Christians burned the Alexandrian Library to destroy classical literature/culture.

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28 Mar 07

worldlitburell: Symposium 2: Hesiod on How Man Discovered Fire, and Why Women Were Created

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he was angry, he ceased from the wrath which he had before because Prometheus matched himself in wit with the almighty son of Cronos.
Heracles, the valiant son of shapely-ankled Alcmene, slew; and delivered the son of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction --not without the will of Olympian Zeus who reigns on high, that the glory of Heracles the Theban-born might be yet greater than it was before over the plenteous earth. This, then, he regarded, and honoured his famous son; though
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- ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day.
- clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden [Pandora] whom he had formed.
- Atlas: