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Hesiod

Hesiod ( or ; Hēsíodos; ) was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

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Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet who lived around 750-650 BC, during the same era as Homer. He is an important early figure in Western literature whose works have survived to influence how we understand ancient Greek culture and mythology.

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Hesiod (/ˈhiːsiəd/ or /ˈhɛsiəd/; Greek: Ἡσίοδος, IPA /ɛʰsioðos/ Ēsíodos) was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu

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5 total works indexed

Theogony and Works and Days
· 2006 · cited 38x
Testimonia
· 2018 · cited 16x
The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles

Works in European collections

35 objects attributed to Hesiod, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Hēsiodu Askraiu Ta Heuriskomena :Cum Notis Ex Quibusdam Auctoribus Selectis ; Accedit Pasoris Index = Hesiodi Ascraei Quae Extant

Poetæ Minores Græci, Selecti & Emendati: Scilicet, Hesiodus, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Smyrn. Musæus, Theoause, Phocylides, Pythagoras... In Usum Scholarum

Ta heuriskomena. Quae extant

Article

18 sections

Contents

Life
Death
Dating
Works
''Theogony''
''Works and Days''
Hesiodic corpus
Reception
Depictions
Monnus mosaic
Portrait bust
Hesiod's Greek
Notes
Citations
References
Further reading
Selected translations
External links

Hesiod ( or ; Hēsíodos; ) was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these are Theogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus's rise to power, and Works and Days, a poem that describes the five Ages of Man, offers advice and wisdom, and includes myths such as Pandora's box.