Hesiod

Speech parts

1. Hesiod - Noun

2. Hesiod - Proper noun

Meaning

Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)

Examples

Berlin London: LIT, p.13 Therefore, they do not form a part of the Plutarchian canon of single biographies – as represented by the Life of Aratus of Sicyon and the Life of Artaxerxes II (the biographies of Hesiod, Pindar, Crates and Daiphantus were lost). Source: Internet

Aristotle (Metaphysics 983b–987a) believed that the question of first causes may even have started with Hesiod (Theogony 116–53) and Homer (Iliad 14.201, 246). Source: Internet

Barracco Museum, Rome Homer and Hesiod Homer and Hesiod portrayed Hermes as the author of skilled or deceptive acts and also as a benefactor of mortals. Source: Internet

A literary education, in the sense of study of written texts, could not have been possible in the time of Hesiod himself, in the late eighth century BC. Source: Internet

As a result, Hesiod tells us, "the earth and sea are full of evils" (101). Source: Internet

At least in the case of Hesiod 's use, see citation Clay lists a number of researchers who have advanced some variant of the association between Hecate's name and will (e.g. Walcot (1958), Neitzel (1975), Derossi (1975)). Source: Internet

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