* Hesiod's Catalogue of Women created a vogue for catalogue poems in the Hellenistic period.

43a. 5 of Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Erysichthon was also known as Aethon due to the " burning " hunger ( aithôn limos ) he was made to endure by Demeter ( cf.

The village owes its name to the important sanctuary dedicated to Zeus ( Dias, " of Zeus "), leader of the gods who dwelt on Mount Olympus ; as recorded by Hesiod's Catalogue of Women, Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, bore Zeus two sons, Magnes and Makednos, eponym of Macedonians, who dwelt here in Pieria at the foot of Mount Olympus.

The myths of the Chimera can be found in Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheca ( book 1 ), Homer's Iliad ( book 6 ); Hyginus ' Fabulae 57 and 151 ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( book VI 339 ; IX 648 ); and Hesiod's Theogony 319ff.

Within classical antiquity, Hesiod's Works and Days " opens with moral remonstrances, hammered home in every way that Hesiod can think of.

The idea of " woe to the conquered " can be found in Homer and the hawk parable in Hesiod's ' Works and Days ' and in Livy, in which " vae victis ", Latin for " woe to the conquered ", is first recorded.

Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed, city by city ; but Hesiod's retelling of the old stories became, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, the accepted version that linked all Hellenes.

In the tradition represented by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus swallowed all of his children immediately after birth.

For example, in Hesiod's Works and Days, the fair-haired Horai, together with the Charites and Peitho crown Pandora — she of " all gifts "— with garlands of flowers.

Plutarch identified this Amphidamas with the hero of the Lelantine War between Chalcis and Eretria and he concluded that the passage must be an interpolation into Hesiod's original work, assuming that the Lelantine War was too late for Hesiod.

While they may be very different in subject matter, Theogony and Works and Days share a distinctive language, metre and prosody that subtly distinguish them from Homer's work and from the Shield of Heracles ( see Hesiod's Greek below ).

Hesiod's myth of Pandora's jar, then, could be an amalgam of many variant early myths.

Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos.

Hesiod was probably influenced by some Near-Eastern traditions, such as the Babylonian Dynasty of Dunnum, which were mixed with local traditions, but they are more likely to be lingering traces from the Mycenaean tradition than the result of oriental contacts in Hesiod's own time.

The Hurrian myth “ The Songs of Ullikummi ”, preserved among the Hittites, is a parallel to Hesiod's Theogony ; the castration of Uranus by Cronus may be derived from the castration of Anu by Kumarbi, while Zeus's overthrow of Cronus and Cronus's regurgitation of the swallowed gods is like the Hurrian myth of Teshub and Kumarbi.

This mythological account of his lover recalls Hesiod's account of Pandora who was decked out by the same goddesses ( the Graces, the Seasons and Persuasion ) so as to be a bane to mankind — an allusion consistent with Ibycus's view of love as unavoidable turmoil.

* Erebus, Tartarus, Eros: Foundational material for genealogies such as Hesiod's Theogony, they are here revealed to be close relatives of the birds.

How far this is an expression of widespread popular superstition is not easy to judge … On the basis of Hesiod's myth, however, what did gain currency was for great and powerful figures to be honoured after death as a daimon …” Daimon is not so much type of quasi-divine being, according to Burkert, but rather a non-personified “ peculiar mode ” of their activity.

Hesiod's Works and Days is considered to be one of the earliest works of this genre.

Plato's work Timaeus is a philosophical reconciliation of Hesiod's cosmology in his Theogony, syncretically reconciling Hesiod to Homer.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work.

'" However, the quoted words are not found in Hesiod's extant work.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, Atropos and her sisters ( Clotho and Lachesis ) were the daughters of Nyx ( Night ), though later in the same work ( ll.

In Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Sun is once in each work called Hyperionides () ' son of Hyperion ', and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate being in other writings.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

Towards the end of Hesiod's Theogony ( 1011f ), we find that Circe bore Odysseus three sons: Ardeas or Agrius ( otherwise unknown ); Latinus ; and Telegonus, who ruled over the Tyrsenoi, that is the Etruscans.

The depiction of Cerberus is relatively consistent between different works and authors, the common theme of the mane of serpents is kept across works, as is the serpent's tail, most literary works of the era describe Cerberus as having three heads with the only notable exception being Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads.

In the following stage, the poets Hesiod and Homer attempt to enumerate the Gods ; Hesiod's Theogony giving the number of twelve.

In Hesiod's Theogony, Demeter is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea.

The story of Prometheus ' sacrifice-trick in Hesiod's Theogony relates how Prometheus tricked Zeus into choosing the bones and fat of the first sacrificial animal rather than the meat to justify why, after a sacrifice, the Greeks offered the bones wrapped in fat to the gods while keeping the meat for themselves.

Hesiod's patrimony there, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, occasioned lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems at first to have cheated him of his rightful share thanks to corrupt authorities or " kings " but later became impoverished and ended up scrounging on the thrifty poet ( Works l. 35, 396 ).

It might seem unusual that Hesiod's father migrated from Asia Minor westwards to mainland Greece, the opposite direction to most colonial movements at the time, and Hesiod himself gives no explanation for it.

In spite of Hesiod's complaints about poverty, life on his father's farm could not have been too uncomfortable if Works and Days is anything to judge by, since he describes the routines of prosperous yeomanry rather than peasants.

Two different — yet early — traditions record the site of Hesiod's grave.

The other tradition, first mentioned in an epigram by Chersias of Orchomenus written in the 7th century BC ( within a century or so of Hesiod's death ) claims that Hesiod lies buried at Orchomenus, a town in Boeotia.

Devotees of Orpheus and Musaeus were probably responsible for precedence being given to their two cult heroes and maybe the Homeridae were responsible in later antiquity for promoting Homer at Hesiod's expense.

Hesiod's vocabulary also includes quite a lot of formulaic phrases that are not found in Homer, which indicates that he may have been writing within a different tradition.

* Peabody, Berkley, The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally Through Hesiod's Works and Days, State University of New York Press, 1975.

In Hesiod's Zeus-centered cosmology, Hera gave birth to Hephaestus as revenge at Zeus for his asexual birthing of Athena.

Several later texts support Hesiod's account, for instance Bibliotheke., Hyginus, and the preface to Fabulae.

In an apparent twist on the myth of the so-called Five Ages of Man found in Hesiod's Works and Days ( wherein Cronus and, later, Zeus created and destroyed five successive races of mortal men ), Prometheus asserts that Zeus had wanted to obliterate the human race, but that he somehow stopped him.

* Beall, E. F., Hesiod's Prometheus and Development in Myth, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol.