The Art of the Lyre “Whoso with wit and wisdom enquires of it cunningly, him it teaches through its sound all manner of things that delight the mind, being easily played with gentle familiarities, for it abhors toilsome drudgery; but whoso in ignorance enquires of it violently, to him it chatters mere vanity and foolishness.” The Contest of Homer and Hesiod Hesiod: ‘Homer, son of Meles, if indeed the Muses, […]
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