Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

* the story " The poetic contest ( / Agōn ) of Homer and Hesiod ;"

Hesiod revisits the story of Prometheus in the Works and Days ( lines 42 – 105 ).

" Hesiod also expands upon the Theogonys story of the first woman, now explicitly called Pandora (" all gifts ").

In Hesiod, the story of Prometheus ( and, by extension, of Pandora ) serves to reinforce the theodicy of Zeus: he is a wise and just ruler of the universe, while Prometheus is to blame for humanity's unenviable existence.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

This ancient story is recorded in lost lines of Hesiod.

Together the works of Homer and Hesiod comprised a kind of Bible for the Greeks ; Homer told the story of a heroic relatively-near past, which Hesiod bracketed with a creation narrative and an account of the practical realities of contemporary daily life.

The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues ; of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop ; of Talos, an artificial man of bronze ; and, according to Hesiod, Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus.

Deimos, " Terror " or " Dread ", and Phobos, " Fear ", are his companions in war and also his children, borne by Aphrodite, according to Hesiod.

In Greek mythology according to Hesiod, the human race had already existed before the creation of women — a peaceful, autonomous existence as a companion to the gods.

Hesiod refers to the island of the " happy dead " and it is the Elysion, where according to an old Minoan belief, the departed could have a different, but happier existence.

Atalanta was the daughter of Iasus ( or Mainalos or Schoeneus, according to Hyginus ), a Boeotian ( according to Hesiod ) or an Arcadian princess ( according to the Bibliotheca ).

In Greek mythology the gigantes ( γίγαντες ) were ( according to the poet Hesiod ) the children of Uranus ( mythology ) ( Ουρανός ) and Gaea ( Γαία ) ( spirits of the sky and the earth ).

They appeared from the drops of blood spilled when Cronus castrated Uranus, according to Hesiod, Theogony 187.

Among possible further interpolations among the Titans was Kreios, whose interest for Hesiod was as the father of Perses and grandfather of Hekate, for whom Hesiod was, according to West, an " enthusiastic evangelist ".

According to Apollodorus, Echidna was the daughter of Tartarus and Gaia, while according to Hesiod, either Ceto and Phorcys or Chrysaor and the naiad Callirhoe were her parents.

Although to Hesiod, she was an immortal and ageless nymph, according to Apollodorus, Echidna used to " carry off passers-by ", until she was finally killed where she slept by Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant.

Ladon, the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides, was also born of Echidna by Typhon, according to Apollodorus, and Hyginus, but according to Hesiod, Ladon was the offspring of Ceto and Phorcys.

A work attributed in Antiquity to Hesiod exists in such fragmentary quotations and chance remarks that its reconstruction, according to Walter Burkert, is " most uncertain.

Typhon is also the father of hot dangerous storm winds which issue forth from the stormy pit of Tartarus, according to Hesiod.

Latinus is also referred to, by much later authors, as the son of Pandora and brother of Graecus although according to Hesiod, Graecus had three brothers, Hellen, Magnitas, and Macedon with the first being the father of Doros, Xuthos, and Aeolos.

In Greek mythology, Scamander ( Skamandros, Xanthos ) ( Greek: Σκάμανδρος ; Ξάνθος ) was a river god, son of Oceanus and Tethys according to Hesiod.

She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebos and Nyx ( the goddess of night ).

In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi (, Dreams ) were, according to Hesiod, sons of Nyx ( Night ), and were brothers of Hypnos ( Sleep ), Thanatos ( Death ), Geras ( Old Age ) and other beings, all produced via parthenogenesis.

* Meliboea, mother of Phellus, according to Hesiod.

Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus or Zeus, but according to Hesiod she was a child of Erebus and Nyx.

Hephaestus created automata for his workshop: Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and, according to Hesiod, the woman Pandora.

Pontus was Gaia's son and, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, he was born without coupling.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.

After Zeus had seduced Kallisto, Lykaon, pretending not to know of the matter, entertained Zeus, as Hesiod says, and set before him on the table the babe which he had cut up.

Erasmus is also generally credited with originating the phrase " Pandora's box ", arising through an error in his translation of Pandora by Hesiod in which he confused " pithos ", storage jar, with " pyxis ", box.

Here he is presented with a lyre, which contradicts the account given by Hesiod himself, in which the gift was a laurel staff.

Ephorus made Homer a younger cousin of Hesiod, Herodotus ( Histories, 2. 53 ) evidently considered them near-contemporaries, and the 4th century BC sophist Alcidamas in his work Mouseion even brought them together for an imagined poetic agon, which survives today as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod.

Hesiod employed the conventional dialect of epic verse, which was Ionian.

The expedition against Cycnus, in which Iolaus accompanied Heracles, is the ostensible theme of a short epic attributed to Hesiod, Shield of Heracles.

Dactylic hexameter was the traditional meter of Greek epic poetry, the earliest extant examples of which are the works of Homer and Hesiod.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

Others present these stories as mythology deriving from Greek cultural influence, deriving arguments mainly from Hesiod ’ s " Works and Days ", which portrays the basic moral foundation and plantation techniques of the citizens of Greece and describes the races of men, created by the Greek deities.

The poet declares that it is he, where we might have expected some king instead, upon whom the Muses have bestowed the two gifts of a scepter and an authoritative voice ( Hesiod, Theogony 30 – 3 ), which are the visible signs of kingship.

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.

Instead they have brought to the fore the literary qualities of the History, which they see as belonging to narrative tradition of Homer and Hesiod and as concerned with the concepts of justice and suffering found in Plato and Aristotle and problematized in Aeschylus and Sophocles.

The Greek poet Hesiod, around the 8th century BC, in his compilation of the mythological tradition ( the poem Works and Days ), explained that, prior to the present era, there were other four progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age.

Later Hesiod uses a lot of eastern material in his cosmology and in the genealogical trees of the gods, and he introduces the idea of the existence of something else behind the gods, which was more powerful than they.

Hesiod complies to the Greek desire of an order in the universe, and tries to bring the gods under a rule comparable to the rule which controls the lives of men.

A tendency to imitate other poets is not peculiar to Bacchylides, however – it was common in ancient poetry, as for example in a poem by Alcaeus ( fragment 347 ), which virtually quotes a passage from Hesiod ( Works and Days 582 – 8 ).

Traditionally, the Archaic period of ancient Greece is taken in the wake of this strong Orientalizing influence during the 8th century BC, which among other things brought the alphabetic script to Greece, marking the beginning of Greek literature ( Homer, Hesiod ).

and which is sometimes ascribed to Hesiod and sometimes to Cercops of Miletus.

Hesiod introduces a moral purpose which is absent in the Homeric poems.