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Several near eastern theogonies have survived, and can be compared to the work of Hesiod.
He is often coupled with the archaic poet Hesiod who wrote the Theogony and Works and Days.
It looks back ultimately to the Works and Days of the archaic Greek poet Hesiod.
As long ago as 800 BC the Greek poet Hesiod described a sweet Cypriot wine, produced from sun-dried grapes.
Hesiod brags of prizes won, the blue-ribbon poem of a pedigree at the county-fair, coarse-woven and straw-capped.
Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced.
Records of bird migration were made as much as 3,000 years ago by the Ancient Greek writers Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus and Aristotle.
According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Atlas stood at the ends of the earth towards the west.
The dominant one, and the only one that has survived, was in the Theogony attributed to Hesiod.
Another myth concerning the Titans that is not in Hesiod revolves around Dionysus.
Some of these popular conceptions can be gleaned from the poetry of Homer and Hesiod.
There are short prose pieces on works of art from Pompeii and long poems in tercets on the death of Hesiod.
In the original text Theogony by Hesiod, Metis was the first wife of Zeus before he became the king of all gods.
Hesiod says that ploughs in Ancient Greece were also made partly of elm.
Their use in Ancient Greek agriculture was described by Hesiod.
The most widely accepted version at the time, although a philosophical account of the beginning of things, is reported by Hesiod, in his Theogony.
The first references to hosiery can be found in works of Hesiod, where Romans are said to have used leather or cloth in forms of strips to cover their lower body parts.
The disposition and precise identity of this former group is elusive, and sources such as Homer, Hesiod and Herodotus give varying, partially mythological accounts.
Examples from Classical Literature
This day in the calendar of Hesiod, is most propitious for the birth of men.
Viewed in this light, the gnomic poets mark a transition from Homer and Hesiod to the dramatists and moralists of Attica.
But I fear Hesiod will still be found correct in his description of a Boeotian winter.
In that description is the preface to a theogony of which Hesiod wrote the final page.
But they were in some danger of treating Homer and Hesiod as inspired scriptures.
To Hesiod, then, we must turn for what is the earliest complete literary form of the Greek cosmogonic myth.
But they do not, for this symbolic language is not found in either Homer or Hesiod.
Hesiod codified certain priestly and Delphian theories about their origin and genealogies.
Hesiod once sojourned at the same house in Locris with a certain Milesian.
For Hereas of Megara says that Peisistratus removed this verse from the works of Hesiod.
The most ancient texts are the Iliad and the poems attributed to Hesiod.
According to Hesiod they were nine in number and presided over the arts.
Their ideal world was shaped by the works of Homer and Hesiod.
Hesiod speaks of an age of copper, when the black iron did not exist.
There is the theogony of Hesiod, and the gods as Homer paints them.
First Hesiod and next Stesichorus discover his name to be Kerberos.
Hesiod mentions not only the name but also the genealogy of Kerberos.
What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer?
Hesiod says she was the daughter of Lycaon and lived in Arcadia.
The tradition seems, however, to be constant in declaring that Hesiod was murdered and buried at Oenoe, and in this respect it is at least as old as the time of Thucydides.
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