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So if Pandora was created during at least the Silver Age (under Zeus' Rule) then how did people under Kronos' Rule in the Golden Age reproduce?
It's usually over-exaggerated how misogynistic ancient literature is, but Hesiod legitimately seems to hate women, so it makes sense that he's saying women didn't exist during mankind's best period of time, but that still leaves the question about how more humans were being made then.
Also was Plato making up lies about the Hellenistic religion when he said that lovers used to share a single body with 4 arms, 4 legs, and 2 heads and such? because that seems to contradict Hesiod. And if it doesn't it means that in the golden age all of the couples were men.
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>>9243796
>looking for reason and consistency in mythology
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>>9243815
Of course you shouldn't expect consistency over the course of a myth's history, but you should expect consistency within a single author's work. Forgetting Plato's weird myth for a second, Hesiod would've been aware about the question of reproduction Works and Days raises, but doesn't address it. What's up with that?
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start with the greeks
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>>9243835
His work is a compilation of myths from around Greece that he re-worked to fit his ideology.
Mythology is not religion you dope.
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