He does tell you all about the legends first, but he puts them aside and says they're just legends--now let's talk history, and he doesn't begin that until the eight century B.C.

他先将神话传说展示给读者,然后将其放到一边,对读者说,这些只是神话而已,现在咱们说说历史,而他讲的历史是从公元前八世纪开始的

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Hesiod, whom I have not mentioned to you before, a poet who we think to have lived around 700 B.C., very early in the history of the polis, wrote one of his poems called, Works and Days.

赫西奥德,我之前跟你们提到过的,是一个生活在公元七百年左右的诗人,那还是在城邦历史的初期,创作了一首名为《工作与时日》的诗歌

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选