Hesiod claimed he was inspired by the Muses to become a poet after they appeared to him on Mount Helicon.

Hesiod ( or ;, Hēsíodos ) was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

* 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.

In a major departure from Hesiod, the 6th-century BC Greek elegiac poet Theognis of Megara tells us:

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.

In his poem, Works and Days, the ancient Greek poet Hesiod between 750 and 650 BC, defined five successive Ages of Man: 1.

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.

The other great poet of the preclassical period was Hesiod.

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 ).

The Greek poet Hesiod wrote that snails signified the time to harvest by climbing the stalks, while the Aztec moon god Tecciztecatl bore a snail shell on his back.

Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.

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.

The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there.

The Greek oral poet Hesiod refers to the Isles of the Blessed in his didactic poem Works and Days.

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod has in his account of the birth of the gods and creation of the world ( i. e., in his Theogony ) that Chaos begot the primordial deities: Eros, Gaia ( Earth ) and Tartarus, who begot Erebus ( Darkness ) and Nyx ( Night ), and Plato echoes this genealogy in the Timaeus 40e, 41e where the familiar Titan and Olympian gods are sired by Heaven and Earth.

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.

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 Greek poet Hesiod established in his Theogony that Thánatos is a son of Nyx ( Night ) and Erebos ( Darkness ) and twin of Hypnos ( Sleep ).

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 ).

A more recent critic connects the two as artists, Sophocles the tragedian, Arnold the lyric poet, each attempting to transform this note of sadness into " a higher order of experience ".

The title of the novel connects it of course with the most famous work, Faust I and Faust II, of the German poet Goethe, generally considered the absolute, unsurpassable climax of all German literature and the most deep and most true exploration and depiction of the German character.

Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti.

In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".

2285 – 2250 BC, is the first poet in history whom we know by name.

This Bragi was reckoned as the first skaldic poet, and was certainly the earliest skaldic poet then remembered by name whose verse survived in memory.

It was restored to his widow, at the pleading of the poet André Chénier ; " She is old ", he urged, " she is seventy-six, and her husband has left her no heritage save his illustrious name, his virtues and his poverty.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

His middle name, Marlais, was given in honour of his great-uncle, William Thomas, a Unitarian minister and poet whose bardic name was Gwilym Marles.

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

Some scholars, such as Martin West, claim that " Homer " is " not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name.

Many scholars take the name of the poet to be indicative of a generic function.

* John M. Ford ( 1957 – 2006 ), American science fiction writer and poet ; achieved iconic status in genre community as columnist and personality known under pen name " Dr. Mike "

Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.

* Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia ( 1858-1915 ), poet known by his pen name " KR "

The word " lesbian " is derived from the name of the Greek island of Lesbos, home to the 6th-century BCE poet Sappho.

Another Greek play with a similar name, Misogunos ( Μισόγυνος ) or Woman-hater, is reported by Cicero ( in Latin ) and attributed to ( Marcus ) Atilius ( poet ).

The poet Dante Alighieri in his Divina Commedia places the Maremma between Cecina and Corneto, the former name of Tarquinia.

In the Swahili and Indonesian culture many of his stories are being told under the name of " Abunuwasi " or " Abunawas ", though this confuses Nasreddin with an entirely different man – the poet Abu Nuwas, known for homoerotic verse.

Eleazar Kalir ( a Hebrew Galilean poet variously dated from the 6th to 10th century ) mentions a locality clearly in the Nazareth region bearing the name Nazareth נצרת ( in this case vocalized " Nitzrat "), which was home to the descendants of the 18th Kohen family Happitzetz ( הפצץ ), for at least several centuries after the Bar Kochva revolt.

Several other contemporary authors refer to Oxford as an openly acknowledged poet, and Puttenham himself quotes one of Oxford's verses elsewhere in the book, referring to him by name as the author.

The word Ape means pretender or mimic, and Oxfordians maintain the writer whose silent name is bound by one letter is Edward de VerE, although Marston calls the passage an example of " hotchpodge giberdige " written by bad poets, and nowhere does Marston mention Oxford explicitly as a poet, bad or otherwise.

The hyphenated name and the phrase " ever-living poet " are used as arguments in the authorship debate.