Hesiod
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That sounds very high-minded, yet “Works and Days” is a surprisingly personal work, grounded in a quarrel between Hesiod and his brother over a paternal inheritance.
From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 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
The performance of the panels pales in comparison with the score achieved by a marble head of the first century cataloged as the “head of a Greek poet, probably Hesiod, Roman Imperial.”
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2011
Hesiod in the eighth or ninth century tells about the Chimaera, and Anteia’s love and the sad end of Bellerophon are in the Iliad.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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