Hesiod

Hesiod (Hesiodos, Ἡσίοδος) was an Ancient Greek poet. He is probably the second Greek poet whose work has survived; like Homer, his dates are not known...

Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, the birth of the gods) is a poem by Hesiod. It was written in the 8th or 7th century BC, and uses the same dialect...

In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first mortal woman. According to Hesiod, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus...

the language used by Homer (in his epics: The Iliad and Odyssey) and by Hesiod. It is also known as Epic Greek. It is called Epic Greek because it was...

Corporation (January 2005). ISBN 978-0-7614-7559-0. Hesiod; Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (2007). Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica. BiblioBazaar, LLC....

the box was empty, hope remained. The actual evils are not specified by Hesiod. The word in the original text is Pithos, which usually refers to a large...

Her Roman equivalent was Nox. In his theogony (How the gods came to be), Hesiod tells: Night is born of Chaos; her offspring are many, and telling. With...

Phorcys and Ceto (according to Hesiod’s Theogony) or Tartarus and Gaia (in the account of the mythographer Apollodorus); in Hesiod, Tartarus and Gaia are the...

is named after Uranos. So is the radioactive chemical element uranium. Hesiod Theogony This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by...

children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa (the primordial sea goddess), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child. Aether was her brother and consort....

Gorgon. Hesiod names all three, Stheno, the powerful one, Euryale,who could jump far, and trouble-ridden Medusa, the queen. According to Hesiod, they lived...

others. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, according to Greek poet Hesiod. Tyche is one of the Oceanids. Oceanids are the daughters of the Titans...

Greek return from Troy. It was identified as one of the five Ages of Man by Hesiod. The heroes mentioned are superhuman, but not god-like, and are celebrated...

in pain and unhappiness. This myth was first written down by Greek poet Hesiod, about 2700 years ago. In the Golden Age, humans lived together with gods...

criticized and satirized a wide range of ideas. This included Homer and Hesiod, the belief in the pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and the Greeks' love...

being Ares, the god of war. In Homer's Iliad, one of the Oceanids. In Hesiod's Theogony, however, Aphrodite is stated to have risen from sea foam, formed...

killed in a hunting accident, so the Hyades wept because of their grief. Hesiod names five: Phaisyle, Koronis, Kle(e)ia, Phaio, Eudore. Pherecydes of Syros...

note to 6.6.4, p. 198; Hyginus, preface. This is not the theogony that Hesiod presents. Cicero, De natura Deorum 3.56; also Arnobius, Adversus Nationes...

Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library Apollodorus, 1.1.3. Hesiod, Theogony 135; Gantz, p. 10. Hesiod, Theogony 459–467; Caldwell, p. 9; cf. Orphic frr. 200–204...

these beings is the cyclops Polyphemus, featured in Homer's Odyssey. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Elder Cyclopes – Brontes (Greek: Βρόντης - "thunderer"),...