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The idea was to recapture a sense of antiquity that connoted a spirit of place, an Arcadian flavor, more Hesiodic than Augustan.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no doubt that the "Works and Days" is the oldest, as it is the most original, of the Hesiodic poems.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

It is highly probable that these poems were interpolations into the "Catalogues" expanded by later poets from more summary notices in the genuine Hesiodic work and subsequently detached from their contexts and treated as independent.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

In the Iliad he is represented as fighting against the centaurs, and in the Hesiodic poems he is an amorous knight-errant, misguided by the beautiful Ægle.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John

So the legend ran in a Hesiodic poem, according to the extract in Eratosthenes.**

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew