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

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 lived near Helicon, one of the Muses’ mountains—the others were Pierus in Pieria, where they were born, Parnassus and, of course, Olympus.

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