hesiod in English

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( circa 700 bc ) , Greek poet. One of the earliest known Greek poets, he wrote the Theogony , an epic poem on the genealogies of the gods.

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1. This inference was drawn by Hesiod.

2. In addition, the classes Chaos (CH) and Hesiod (HS) exist.

3. Hesiod was a poor farmer whose life was hard and bitter.

4. Clotho Sentence Examples Hesiod has three Fates (Moipac), daughters of Night, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos

5. As another Greek author, Hesiod, put it, "Keep away from the gossip of people.

6. Archilochus was known in ancient Greece, to everyone who knew anything about literature, as the first poet after Homer and Hesiod

7. The Arethusa Alpheus myth is of early origin, recounted by Hesiod and Pindar, and is thus a foundational Greek myth

8. Did the people who put together the Old Testament use the Greek canon of Homer and Hesiod as a template?

9. In antiquity Archilochus of Paros was considered a poet rivalled only by Homer and Hesiod, yet he has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship

10. According to the version of her birth recounted by Hesiod in his Theogony, Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea.

11. The Abridged TLG® provides access to authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, the Greek tragedians and orators that have traditionally been used in college level instruction of Greek

12. There are certain holy ones, sisters born — three virgins 208 gifted with wings: their heads are Besprinkled with white meal, and they dwell under a ridge of Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

13. The Boeotian School of EpicHesiod.It is customary to speak of Homer and Hesiod in the same breath, but, in fact, the two poets lived in different worlds and produced markedly different poetry

14. The Cyclopes were minor power gods of the second generation and children of Uranusand Gaeaaccording to Hesiod, or the Greek god Poseidonand the Sea NymphThoosa, according to Greek author Homer

15. Hesiod described one group of Cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.

16. The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.

17. Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus …