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Hesiod | |
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-Ancient_Roman_busts_in_the_Neues_Museum.jpg) A possible imaginative depiction of Hesiod (Roman copy of a Greek original) | |
| Native name | Ἡσίοδος |
| Born | Cyme, Aeolis |
| Died | Ascra |
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| Language | Ancient Greek |
| Years active | c. 700 BC[1][2] |
| Notable works | |
Hesiod (/ˈhiːsiəd/ HEE-see-əd or /ˈhɛsiəd/ HEH-see-əd;[3] Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.[1][2]
Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these are Theogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus's rise to power, and Works and Days, a poem that describes the five Ages of Man, offers advice and wisdom, and includes myths such as Pandora's box.
Hesiod is generally regarded by Western authors as 'the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject.'[4] Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs.[5] Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought,[6] Archaic Greek astronomy, cosmology, and ancient time-keeping.
- ^ a b M. L. West, Hesiod: Theogony, Oxford University Press (1966), p. 40.
- ^ a b Jasper Griffin, "Greek Myth and Hesiod", J.Boardman, J.Griffin and O. Murray (eds.), The Oxford History of the Classical World, Oxford University Press (1986), p. 88.
- ^ "Hesiod". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ^ Barron, J. P., and Easterling, P. E., "Hesiod" in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature,, P. E. Easterling and B. Knox (eds.), Cambridge University Press (1989), p. 51.
- ^ Andrewes, Antony, Greek Society, Pelican Books (1971), p. 254 f.
- ^ Rothbard, Murray N., Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (1995), p. 8; Gordan, Barry J., Economic Analysis Before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius (1975), p. 3; Brockway, George P., The End of Economic Man: An Introduction to Humanistic Economics, 4th edition (2001), p. 128.