Hesiod

Hesiodi Ascraei quaecumque exstant, 1701

Hesiod (Hesiodos, Ἡσίοδοςcode: grc is deprecated ) was an Ancient Greek poet. He is probably the second Greek poet whose work has survived; like Homer, his dates are not known for certain. As with Homer, there are numerous legends, none of which are supported by hard evidence. He may have lived around 700 BC in Askra in Boeotia, as a farmer. Today his writings are one of the main sources for Greek mythology, and everyday life in Ancient Greece, such as farming techniques, astronomy and ancient time-keeping. The complete surviving works were published in 1493, and by Aldus Manutius in 1495.

Works

• Works and days
• Theogony
• Catalogue of women (or Eoiae)
• The Shield of Heracles

Hesiod Media

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  The Dance of the Muses at Mount Helicon by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1807). Hesiod cites inspiration from the Muses while on Mount Helicon.

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  Modern Mount Helicon. Hesiod once described his nearby hometown, Ascra, as "cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant."

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  Opening lines of Works and Days in a 16th-century manuscript

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  Ancient bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, now conjectured to be an imaginative portrait of Hesiod.

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  Monnus mosaic from the end of the 3rd century AD. The figure is identified by the name ESIO-DVS (Hesiod).

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  Title to an edition of Hesiod's Carmina (1823)

Other websites

• Works by Hesiod at Project Gutenberg
• Web texts taken from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, edited and translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, published as Loeb Classical Library #57, 1914, ISBN 0-674-99063-3:
  • Scanned text at the Internet Archive, in PDF and DjVu format
  • Perseus Classics Collection: Greek and Roman Materials: Text: Hesiod Greek texts and English translations for Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles with additional notes and cross links.
  • Versions of the electronic edition of Evelyn-White's English translation edited by Douglas B. Killings, June 1995:
    • Project Gutenberg plain text Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine.
    • Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE: The Online Medieval and Classical Library: Hesiod Archived 2004-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
    • Sacred Texts: Classics: The Works of Hesiod (Theogony and Works and Days only)
    • Hesiod and the Arcadian theme in the paintings Shepherds of Arcadia – Et in Arcadia Ego Archived 2000-10-26 at the Wayback Machine