Is an Epic poem consisting of 1022 lines in which Hesiod explains the beginning History of the gods and creation it culminates with the triumph of Zeus as the Theogony is the earlier of his two books and relates to the Trojan War and the ‘Iron Age’ where justice and piety has vanished. Prevailing, the ‘Bronze Age’ a period of strife, the ‘Heroic Age’ of the He also gives a discourse on the five ages of humanĮxistence, starting with the ‘Golden Age’ ruled by Kronos, a period ofįollows with the ‘Silver Age’ ruled by Zeus, less happy but with luxury Success and gives advice on agriculture, commerce, navigation, marriage,īringing-up children and other moral useful precepts. He then speaks about justice and hard work as the only way to Lucky or unlucky for particular tasks”, he tells us. His most famous work and is an epic of Greek rural life filled with causticĪdvice for his brother and maxims for farmers to pursue - “the days are days He once travelled to Chalcis on the island of Euboea for a contest of poets. Small references he makes to his family's origin during a quarrel with hisīrother Perses who he criticizes for having made off with the bulk of their What little is known of his real life is told in his Works and Days and the few Was a shepherd until the Muses (the inspirers of poetry) endowed him with talentĪnd commanded him to 'sing of the race of the blessed gods immortal'. Gods while ‘Works and Days’ is a book of wisdom on rural life and traces theĭecline of humanity from the early golden age through the five ages of existenceĪs a Boeotian farmer and a native of the village of Ascra in Boeotia, a district

Great works that survive, ‘Theogony’ relates to the ancient myths of the Exceptįor the works of the blind poet ‘Homer’ (dates un-known but believed to beĪround 700 BC), the epics of Hesiod are the earliest Greek writings to come down Great early poets of Greek history, in his honour the Hesiodic School ofĪncient Greek poetry was named after him. Have you ever wondered who these old masters are? Here is my attempt to find out about some of them: Hesiod

Whose works live on, collected on shelves in dusty old museums, where theyĬontinue to be referenced by historians and others. Masters of academia, the writers, poets and artists whose knowledge, wisdom and History then you will no doubt have seem references to some of the old time If you have ever done research into ancient

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