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Hesiodic

Adjective

Meaning

Hesiodic (comparative more Hesiodic, superlative most Hesiodic)

Relating to the ancient poet Hesiod, or characteristic of his poetry.
Synonym: Hesiodian

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences with the Hesiodic tradition. Source: Internet

Cf. especially Chapter III, Hesiod and the Hesiodic Schools, p. 61 * Schlegel, Catherine and Henry Weinfield, "Introduction to Hesiod" in Hesiod / Theogony and Works and Days, University of Michigan Press, 2006. Source: Internet

For example, the Bibliotheca and Hyginus each make explicit what might be latent in the Hesiodic text: Epimetheus married Pandora. Source: Internet

In Hesiodic scholarship, the interpretive crux has endured: Dora Panofsky and Erwin Panofsky examined the post-Renaissance mythos (Pandora was not a subject of medieval art) in Pandora's Box. Source: Internet

Of these works forming the extended Hesiodic corpus, only the Shield of Heracles ( Ἀσπὶς Ἡρακλέους main, Aspis Hērakleous) is transmitted intact via a medieval manuscript tradition. Source: Internet

The Hesiodic myth did not, however, completely obliterate the memory of the all-giving goddess Pandora. Source: Internet

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