Things I Do Not Like: Hesiod's Theogony

Oh, I went into this with high hopes. Simple grammar, odd word forms not too hard to follow, some interesting muses frolicking around in the mountains. But it's turned into a horrific grind of seventeen different words that mean "mighty" and godly epithets and abstract concepts begetting each other. I haven't enjoyed it since Echidna. And, gosh, the Pandora story is just relentlessly misogynist. (I've heard people say "The Greeks were sexist, but the Romans were misogynist," and I'm beginning to think they haven't read Hesiod.) An example from my homework:

"Then right after he produced a beautiful evil in return for a good thing*, he led her out into where the gods and men were, adorned with the fashion of the gray-eyed daughter of a mighty sire**; and wonder was gripping the immortal gods and mortal men, as they saw the utter deception, an unmanageable thing for men. For the race of rather delicate women is from her, for the deadly race and the tribe of woman is hers, a huge calamity for mortals, dwelling among men, accompanying not wretched poverty but satiety. And as when the bees in vaulted beehives nourish the drones, partners of evil works: all day long, until sunset, they [the bees] daily hurry and set up the white honeycomb, but they [the drones], remaining inside among the vaulted beehives, reap someone else's labor into their own belly."

(* That is, Zeus making Pandora as punishment for men getting their hands on fire.)
(** Athena. Never expect a Greek goddess to be any less of a misogynist than the male gods are. Especially Athena.)