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Hesiod (/ ˈ h iː s i ə d / HEE-see-əd or / ˈ h ɛ s i ə d / HEH-see-əd; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
Full text Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica/Works and Days at Wikisource Works and Days ( Ancient Greek : Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι , romanized : Érga kaì Hēmérai ) [ a ] is a didactic poem written by ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC.
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The Theogony (Ancient Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, [2] i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods" [3]) is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. [4]
Brentano's in Washington D.C., 1906. Hints from Hesiod, also fully entitled Hints from the Works and Days, or, Moral, economical and agricultural maxims and reflections of Hesiod: to which is added The praises of rural life from Horace is a 18 cm softcover book, which was printed by the Brentano Bros., in 1883.
A papyrus fragment containing the beginning of the Atlantid Electra's family from book 3 or 4 (Cat. fr. 177 = P.Oxy. XI 1359 fr. 2, second century CE, Oxyrhynchus). The Catalogue of Women (Ancient Greek: Γυναικῶν Κατάλογος, romanized: Gunaikôn Katálogos)—also known as the Ehoiai (Ancient Greek: Ἠοῖαι, romanized: Ēoîai, Ancient: [ɛː.ôi̯.ai̯]) [a] —is a ...
The Shield of Heracles was first printed, included with the complete works of Hesiod, by Aldus Manutius, in Venice, 1495; the text was from Byzantine manuscripts. In modern times several papyri have offered sections of the text, notably a 1st-century papyrus in Berlin (Berlin Papyri, 9774), a 2nd-century papyrus from Oxyrhynchus (Oxyrhynchus ...
Hesiod was victorious; he dedicated the prize, a bronze tripod, to the Muses at Helicon. [12] There is no mention of Homer. In Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi the winning passage that Hesiod selects is the passage from Works and Days that begins, "When the Pleiades arise..." The judge, who is the brother of the late Amphidamas, awards the prize to ...