A report from the Sutton Trust (pdf)
Some may remember what Hesiod had to say in Works and Days (Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι, c.700 BC):
"So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but
all over the earth there are two. As for the one, a man would praise her when
he came to understand her; but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly
different in nature. For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no
man loves; but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh
Strife her honour due. But the other is the elder daughter of dark Night, and
the son of Cronos who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots
of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. She stirs up even the shiftless to
toil; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man
who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order; and neighbour
vies with is neighbour as he hurries after wealth. This Strife is wholesome for
men. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar
is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel".
Hesiod: Works and Days, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
[1914]
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