Philosopher
Hesiod
Overview
Hesiod ( HEE-see-əd or HEH-see-əd; Ancient 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.
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.' Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought, Archaic Greek astronomy, cosmology, and ancient time-keeping.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Hesiod
- Aristophanes
- Anaximander
- Heraclitus
- Ionic Greek
- Heraclides Ponticus
- Xenophanes
- Parmenides
- Plutarch
- Proclus
- Sappho
- The School of Athens
- Charmides (dialogue)
- Dicaearchus
- Seneca the Younger
- Pherecydes of Syros
- Euhemerus
- Hecataeus of Abdera
- Aristobulus of Alexandria
- Hieronymus of Rhodes
- Crates of Mallus
- Hermotimus of Clazomenae
- D. H. Th. Vollenhoven
Ideas Hesiod discusses
- Epigram
- Aristophanes
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
- Greece
- Herodotus
- Homer
- Orphism
- Ionic Greek
- Byzantine Empire
- Heraclides Ponticus
- Babylon
- Herculaneum
- Irony
- Xenophanes
- Oracle
- Orpheus
- University of California Press
- Prometheus
- Greek mythology
- Plutarch
- Metaphysics (Aristotle)
- Works and Days
- Lesbos
- Agora
Place in the tradition
Part of Anaximander.