Many ancient critics also rejected Theogony ( e. g. Pausanias 9. 31. 3 ) but that seems rather perverse since Hesiod mentions himself by name in that poem ( line 22 ).

In Greek mythology, Hesiod mentions Themis among the six sons and six daughters of Gaia and Uranus ( Earth and Sky ).

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.

The Greek poet Hesiod mentions the Pleiades several times in his Works and Days.

The sacrificial tripod which Hesiod won at a contest in Chalcis in Euboea was still on view at Helicon in Pausanias ' day: the presence of Homer at the festival Hesiod mentions in Works and Days ( 650-59 ) was a later interpolation.

Hesiod is referring to Graecus son of Pandora who was sister of Hellen and Alcman mentions that the mothers of Hellenes were Graikoi.

Hesiod practised various styles of traditional verse, including gnomic, hymnic, genealogical and narrative poetry, but he was not able to manipulate them all fluently.

Ancient Greek poetry in general had strong philosophical tendencies and Hesiod, like Homer, demonstrates a deep interest in a wide range of ' philosophical ' issues, from the nature of divine justice to the beginnings of human society.

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

Hesiod knew from the traditional poetry, such as the Iliad, and the heirloom bronze artifacts that abounded in Greek society, that before the use of iron to make tools and weapons, bronze had been the preferred material and iron was not smelted at all.

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 ).

The Bibliotheca, a Roman-era mythological handbook, includes a riddle for the Sphinx, borrowing the poetry of Hesiod:

Hesiod identifies Paeon as a separate god, and in later poetry Paeon is invoked independently as a health god.

Pastoral literature continued after Hesiod with the poetry of the Hellenistic Greek Theocritus, several of whose Idylls are set in the countryside ( probably reflecting the landscape of the island of Cos where the poet lived ) and involve dialogues between herdsmen.

To judge from these, his elegiac and iambic poetry criticized and satirized a wide range of ideas, including Homer and Hesiod, the belief in the pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and the Greeks ' veneration of athleticism.

Unlike Homer, Hesiod speaks of himself in his poetry ; it remains true that nothing is known about him from any external source.

Rhapsodes notably performed the epics of Homer ( Iliad and Odyssey ) but also the wisdom and catalogue poetry of Hesiod and the satires of Archilochus and others.

Though no name of a philosophical work by him is known, according to the Suda, the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, he wrote a treatise on the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, but nothing of them has survived.

Within Classical Antiquity, the advice poetry of Hesiod, particularly his Works and Days has been seen as a like-genre to Near Eastern wisdom literature.

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

Various inscriptions in Hellenistic Greek carved around the third century B. C., have been found, including poetry from Hesiod, lines from Euripides, a list of Macedonian months, and names of Orontid Kings.

West ( 1967 ) for Alcidamas ' invention of the contest of Homer and Hesiod, N. J. Richardson ( 1981 ) against

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

Achilles ' absence from the lists is conspicuous, but Hesiod explains that he was too young to take part in the contest.

Some Ancient Lives depict Homer as a wandering minstrel, like Thamyris or Hesiod, who walked as far as Chalkis to sing at the funeral games of Amphidamas.

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.

One, as early as Thucydides, reported in Plutarch, the Suda and John Tzetzes, states that the Delphic oracle warned Hesiod that he would die in Nemea, and so he fled to Locris, where he was killed at the local temple to Nemean Zeus, and buried there.

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.

According to Aristotle's Constitution of Orchomenus, when the Thespians ravaged Ascra, the villagers sought refuge at Orchomenus, where, following the advice of an oracle, they collected the ashes of Hesiod and set them in a place of honour in their agora, next to the tomb of Minyas, their eponymous founder.

In that case, the tripod that Hesiod won might have been awarded for his rendition of Theogony, a poem that seems to presuppose the kind of aristocratic audience he would have met at Chalcis.

Some scholars have detected a proto-historical perspective in Hesiod, a view rejected by Paul Cartledge, for example, on the grounds that Hesiod advocates a not-forgetting without any attempt at verification.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

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.

Roberts argues that older than tragedy and comedy was a misogynistic tradition in Greek literature, reaching back at least as far as Hesiod.

" An early visitor to these " dells of Parnassus ", at the end of the eighth century, was Hesiod, who was shown the omphalos.

In the time of the Greek oral poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the Fortunate Isles or the Isles ( or Islands ) of the Blessed, located in the western ocean at the end of the earth.

For Hesiod, Justice is at the center of religious and moral life, who, independently of Zeus, is the embodiment of divine will.

The theme of Nyx's cave or mansion, beyond the ocean ( as in Hesiod ) or somewhere at the edge of the cosmos ( as in later Orphism ) may be echoed in the philosophical poem of Parmenides.

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.

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: was based on DNS and used at MIT's Project Athena.

At Thebes he views the shields of those who died at the Battle of Leuctra, the ruins of the house of Pindar, and the statues of Hesiod, Arion, Thamyris, and Orpheus in the grove of the Muses on Helicon, as well as the portraits of Corinna at Tanagra and of Polybius in the cities of Arcadia.

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

The absence of Homer at Helicon has been noticed by Richard Hunter ( Hunter 2006: 18f ): " The presence of Homer would spoil the party, for the tendency to see these as rival figures for supremacy in epos is familiar from the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, parts of which derive from the classical period ".