Initially they lived like animals (1)

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Dispute between Cattle and Grain 19-24:
Mankind of that time knew not the eating of bread, knew not the wearing of garments; the people went around with skins on their bodies. They ate grass with their mouths like sheep, drank water from ditches.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 447-452:
First of all, though they had eyes to see, they saw to no avail; they had ears, but they did not understand; but, just as shapes in dreams, throughout their length of days, without purpose they wrought all things in confusion. They had neither knowledge of houses built of bricks and turned to face the sun nor yet of work in wood; but dwelt beneath the ground like swarming ants, in sunless caves.

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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 447-452
Dispute between Cattle and Grain 19-24

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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