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.

His father is generally agreed to be Aegeas, although Hesiod states that Jason fathered him and Cheiron raised him.

Hesiod states: " Also deadly Nyx bore Nemesis an affliction to mortals subject to death.

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.

The first known writers to locate Homer earlier than Hesiod were Xenophanes and Heraclides Ponticus, though Aristarchus of Samothrace was the first actually to argue the case.

For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus ( they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias ).

In addition to the Theogony and Works and Days, numerous other poems were ascribed to Hesiod during antiquity.

Several additional hexameter poems were ascribed to Hesiod:

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 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.

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 ).

Hesiod described them as three brothers who were primordial giants.

In the Theogony by Hesiod, the Cyclopes – Brontes (" thunderer "), Steropes (" lightning ") and the " bright " Arges ( Greek: Ἄργης, Βρόντης, and Στερόπης ) – were the primordial sons of Uranus ( Sky ) and Gaia ( Earth ) and brothers of the Hecatonchires.

According to Hesiod, they were strong, stubborn, and " abrupt of emotion ".

Hesiod says that ploughs in Ancient Greece were also made partly of elm.

Some Greek sources say that he was the son of Gaia and Oceanus ; however, ancient Greeks generally believed with Hesiod that Tethys and Oceanus were the parents of all three thousand river gods.

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.

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.

In the other variant, emphasising the " right order " aspect of the Horai, Hesiod says that Zeus wedded " bright Themis " who bore Eunomia, Diké, and Eirene, who were law-and-order goddesses that maintained the stability of society.

According to Herodotus and Pausanias ( vi. 17. 6 ), on the authority of Hesiod, his father was Amythaon, whose name implies the " ineffable " or " unspeakably great "; Melampus and his heirs were thus Amythaides of the " House of Amythaon ".

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.

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 Chimera is generally considered to have been female ( see the quotation from Hesiod above ) despite the mane adorning its lion's head, the inclusion of a close mane often was depicted on lionesses, but the ears always were visible ( that does not occur with depictions of male lions ).

The works of Homer ( the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns ) and of Hesiod were written in a literary dialect called Homeric Greek or Epic Greek, which largely comprises Old Ionic, with some borrowings from the neighboring Aeolic dialect to the north.

The oldest of the hymns were written in the seventh century BC, somewhat later than Hesiod and the usually accepted date for the writing down of the Homeric epics.

Records of bird migration were made 3, 000 years ago by Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus and Aristotle.

According to Hesiod, Nyx, the primordial goddess of the Night, produced the " tribe of Dreams " () parthenogenetically, though Cicero says that Dreams were the children of Night and Erebus, the embodiment of Darkness.

Hesiod also says Pegasus carried thunderbolts for Zeus.

In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods.

According to the Archaic Greek poet Hesiod, Hecate originally had power over the heavens, land, and sea, not as in the later tradition heaven, earth, and underworld.

He was the first Greek poet known to express concern over the eventual fate and survival of his own work and, along with Homer, Hesiod and the authors of the Homeric Hymns, he is among the earliest poets whose work has been preserved in a continuous manuscript tradition ( the work of other archaic poets is preserved as scattered fragments ).

In the Theogony of Hesiod ( 7 th century BC ) the three Moirai ( Fates ) are acting over the gods.

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.

337 – 45 ), listening to his father's accounts of his own sea voyages as a merchant The father probably spoke in the Aeolian dialect of Cyme but Hesiod probably grew up speaking the local Boeotian dialect.

Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea following the defeat of his father Kronos, when the world was divided by lot among his three sons ; Zeus was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three.

As a result, Hesiod tells us, " the earth and sea are full of evils " ( 101 ).

He is a primordial sea god, generally cited ( first in Hesiod ) as the son of Pontus and Gaia.

As a result, Hesiod tells us, " the earth and sea are full of evils " ( 101 ).

Around 700 BC, Hesiod ( Theogony, Shield of Heracles ) increases the number of Gorgons to three — Stheno ( the mighty ), Euryale ( the far-springer ), and Medusa ( the queen ), and makes them the daughters of the sea deities Keto and Phorcys.

Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa ( the primordial sea goddess ), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child.

For Hesiod, Pontus seems little more than a personification of the sea, ho pontos, " the Road ", by which Hellenes signified the Mediterranean Sea.

The river was among those mentioned by Hesiod in Theogony ; they were " all sons of Oceanus and queenly Tethys " for, according to the image of world hydrography common to the ancients, the fresh water that welled up in springs came from the underworld caverns and pools and was connected with the salt sea.