RE: Why did god create evil?
November 29, 2011 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2011 at 9:38 pm by Epimethean.)
OK, Tango: you are using Works and Days, not the Theogony, which is a far more comprehensive overview of Greek cosmogony and lineage. Fair enough. I don't think the δαίμων you cite as living with the gods is to be taken as man of the sort we consider to be such, but rather as the Romans saw their household genius. The story is hard to follow, but man seems to really come into being as man after Pandora (before whom, as in other ancient tales, there seem to have been no human females). Apollodorus and Ovid (and even Pausanias) tend to follow this, and Ovid in the Metamorphoses gives a more literal four ages than the ones found in W&D, though interestingly enough, he does question whether the unknown creator god may have created man or whether Prometheus did so (as accepted by Apollodorus and Pausanias after).
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