On May 9, I took down my copy of Hesiod’s Theogony and spent a couple of hours meditating over a few of its most metaphysically pregnant lines.
On May 14, having finished up the last of the New Testament epistles, I started in on the Book of Revelation.
I last read Revelation three years ago. My most recent serious engagement with the Theogony was five years ago.
After reading the opening chapters of Revelation, I set the Bible down and checked one of my email accounts. I had a new message from academia.edu — the timestamp indicates that it was sent while I was reading Revelation — suggesting that I might want to download a paper by one Bruce Louden called “Hesiod’s Theogony and the Book of Revelation 4, 12, and 19-20.”
Talk about a targeted ad!
