Viewpoints Comparative Questions

  1. How are natural forces described in each of the three origin stories? What does this tell you about how their authors viewed nature?
  2. What does each story suggest about the spiritual life of the society that created it? How do the stories differ, and what might explain these differences?

Richmond Lattimore, trans., Hesiod (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), 130–131.