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

Example Sentences

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

Today, Hesiod is known for two works — a genealogical history of the gods titled “Theogony” and what Stallings calls this “variegated and discursive poem about justice and man’s place in the world.”

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

With the exception of the story of Prometheus’ punishment, told by Aeschylus in the fifth century, I have taken the material of this chapter chiefly from Hesiod, who lived at least three hundred years earlier.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton