| But I fear Hesiod will still be found correct in his description of a Boeotian winter. |
| He is often coupled with the archaic poet Hesiod who wrote the Theogony and Works and Days. |
| As long ago as 800 BC the Greek poet Hesiod described a sweet Cypriot wine, produced from sun-dried grapes. |
| Viewed in this light, the gnomic poets mark a transition from Homer and Hesiod to the dramatists and moralists of Attica. |
| Several near eastern theogonies have survived, and can be compared to the work of Hesiod. |
| But they were in some danger of treating Homer and Hesiod as inspired scriptures. |
