Hesiod

American  

[hee-see-uhd, hes-ee-] / ˈhi si əd, ˈhɛs i- /

noun

1. fl. 8th century b.c., Greek poet.

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Hesiod British  

/ ˈhɛsɪˌɒd /

noun

1. 8th century _bc , Greek poet and the earliest author of didactic verse. His two complete extant works are the Works and Days, dealing with the agricultural seasons, and the Theogony , concerning the origin of the world and the genealogies of the gods

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Other Word Forms

• Hesiodic
  adjective

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Hesiod

Cupid is the Roman incarnation of the Greek god Eros, who first appears in “Theogony” by the poet Hesiod.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019

Anne Carson compares her to Hesiod, and even in the new book, a slender essay collection called “The Condition of Secrecy,” you get a sense of her dazzling, polymathic intelligence.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2018

I spent many a dull day with his Hesiod before concluding that this wasn't the case.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012

The works of Homer and another epic, Theogony by Hesiod, are the source of much of Greek mythology.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

As she fell, Annabeth thought about Hesiod, the old Greek poet who’d speculated it would take nine days to fall from earth to Tartarus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan