Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles.

Modern Mount Helicon — Hesiod once described his nearby hometown, Ascra, as " cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant.

When described as a Nereid in Classical myths, Thetis was the daughter of Nereus and Doris ( Hesiod, Theogony ), and a granddaughter of Tethys with whom she sometimes shares characteristics.

Hesiod described them as three brothers who were primordial giants.

Hesiod ( c. 700 BC ) described Eileithyia as a daughter of Hera by Zeus ( Theogony 921 )— and the Bibliotheca ( Roman-era ) and Diodorus Siculus ( c. 90 – 27 BC ) ( 5. 72. 5 ) agreed.

Drawing not only on the socio-religious consciousness of his time but also on many of the earlier cult-religions, Hesiod described the forces of the universe as cosmic divinities.

The inveterate enemy of the Olympian gods is described in detail by Hesiod as a vast grisly monster with a hundred serpent heads " with dark flickering tongues " flashing fire from their eyes and a din of voices and a hundred serpents legs, a feature shared by many primal monsters of Greek myth that extend in serpentine or scaly coils from the waist down.

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

In The Works and Days, Hesiod described five Ages of Man: the Gold Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, the Heroic Age and the Iron Age, which began with the Dorian invasion.

A dried grape wine from Cyprus was first known to be described in 800 BC by the Greek poet Hesiod and was known as the Cypriot Manna.

The original silver age ( Αργυρόν Γένος ) was the second of the five " Ages of Man " described by the ancient poet Hesiod in his poem Works and Days, following the Golden age and preceding the Bronze age.

The epithet Panoptes, reflecting his mythic role, set by Hera as a very effective watchman of Io, was described in a fragment of a lost poem Aigimios, attributed to Hesiod:

The former, retrospective view of perfection had antecedents in antiquity: Hesiod and Ovid had described a " golden age " that had existed at the beginning of time, and which had been succeeded by silver, copper and Iron Ages, each inferior to the previous.

Unlike their father, Hesiod was averse to sea travel but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, where he won a tripod in a singing competition.

It is probable that Hesiod wrote his poems down, or dictated them, rather than passed them on orally, as rhapsodes did — otherwise the pronounced personality that now emerges from the poems would surely have been diluted through oral transmission from one rhapsode to another.

Hesiod mentions a poetry contest at Chalcis in Euboea where the sons of one Amphidamas awarded him a tripod ( Works and Days ll. 654 – 662 ).

Classical authors also attributed to Hesiod a lengthy genealogical poem known as Catalogue of Women or Ehoiai ( because sections began with the Greek words ē hoiē, " Or like the one who ...").

It is also argued that hope was simply one of the evils in the jar, the false kind of hope, and was no good for mankind, since, later in the poem, Hesiod writes that hope is empty ( 498 ) and no good ( 500 ) and makes mankind lazy by taking away his industriousness, making him prone to evil.

They had one son, Medus, although Hesiod makes Medus the son of Jason.

Hesiod advised the farmer to have always two ploughs, so that if one broke the other might be ready for use.

Although his work now only survives in fragments, he was revered by the ancient Greeks as one of their most brilliant authors, able to be mentioned in the same breath as Homer and Hesiod, yet he was also censured by them as the archetypal poet of blame — his invectives were even said to have driven his former fiancee and her father to suicide.

The dominant one, and the only one that has survived, is the Theogony attributed to Hesiod.

Among the Graeae in Hesiod there is one called Enyo.

According to Hesiod Geryon had one body and three heads, whereas the tradition followed by Aeschylus gave him three bodies.

In one of the surviving fragments of the Megalai Ehoiai attributed to Hesiod, it's told that Magnes " had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaeus.

According to Hesiod, who related the tale twice ( Theogony, 527ff ; Works and Days 57ff ), Epimetheus was the one who accepted the gift of Pandora from the gods.

He aimed his critique at the polytheistic religious views of earlier Greek poets and of his own contemporaries: " Homer and Hesiod " one fragment states, " have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.

Hesiod mentions either different Calypsos or the same Calypso as one of the Oceanid daughters of Tethys and Oceanus, and Pseudo-Apollodorus as one of the Nereid daughters of Nereus and Doris.

Curiously, however, he is made to refer disparagingly to Hesiod at one point, who lived in Greece ca.

It was demarcated as one of the five Ages of Man by Hesiod.

It was named after one of the Nereids of Greek Mythology ( Hesiod, Theogony, 240 )

M. L. West has suggested how Hesiod filled out the complement of Titans from the core group — adding three figures from the archaic tradition of Delphi, Koios, Phoibe, whose name Apollo assumed with the oracle, and Themis.

* Aegimius, a heroic epic concerning the Dorian Aegimius ( variously attributed to Hesiod or Cercops of Miletus ).

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

This anomaly can be explained by the fact that Hesiod made a conscious effort to compose like an Ionian epic poet at a time when digamma was not heard in Ionian speech, while Homer tried to compose like an older generation of Ionian bards, when it was heard in Ionian speech.

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.

Hesiod, the first didactic poet, put into epic verse his descriptions of pastoral life, including practical advice on farming, and allegorical myths.

The first recorded works in the western literary tradition are the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod.

It later served as the basis of Epic Greek, the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, of poets such as Hesiod.