Line 225 describes the birth of Strife and contradicts the opening of another work by its poet, which claims there are two Strifes.
Line 225 describes the birth of Strife and contradicts the opening of another work by its poet, which claims there are two Strifes. Its final 100 lines may have added later to combine it with The Catalogue of Women, meaning the last event the poet described was the battle with Typhoeus. It begins on Mount Helicon, where the Muses teach a shepherd the art of poetry. Dorothea Wender claims this poem is better than the poet's attributed The Shield of Heracles, but not as well-written as the work that lays out the Five Stages of Man, Works and Days.  Also describing the castration of Uranus and the Olympians defeat of the Titans, for 10 points, name this poem laying out the lineage of the gods, by Hesiod.
Line 225 describes the birth of Strife and contradicts the opening of another work by its poet, which claims there are two Strifes.
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