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17199952 No.17199952 [Reply] [Original]

>No arse-rigged woman must deceive your wits with her wily twitterings when she pokes into your granary; he who believes a woman believes cheaters.

>In due season bring a wife into your house, when you neither many years short of thirty nor many beyond it ... As for the woman, she should have four years of ripeness (menstruation) and be married in the fifth. Marry a virgin, so that you may teach her good ways
Is Hesiod giving good advice here?

>> No.17199974

This misogynist is locked.

>> No.17200222

>>17199952
We only have two complete works from Hesiod and one of them is a shitpost about his brother.

>> No.17200302

>>17200222
it's a fine piece of shitposting, all things said

>> No.17200333

>>17200222
It's not really shitpost, he was just giving advice to his brother and trying to get him to stop being a NEET and to get a wife and work on the land.

>> No.17200404

>>17199952
>arse-rigged woman
What is an arse-rigged woman?

>> No.17200435

>>17200404
your mom

>> No.17200475
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17200475

>>17199952
is this the women hate thread?

>> No.17200595

>>17200333
His motivation for writing the piece was to complain about his brother trying to steal farmland from him.
>>17200302
Agreed