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Hesiod

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Hesiod (lived 8th century BC)

Greek poet. The earliest of the Greek didactic poets, he is often contrasted with Homer as the other main representative of the early epic. He is the author of Works and Days, a moralizing and didactic poem of rural life, and Theogony, an account of the origin of the world and of the gods. Both poems include the myth of Pandora.

Hesiod was born in Ascra, Boeotia, worked as herder of his father's flocks, and seems never to have risen above the status of a peasant farmer. After his father's death, he became involved in a dispute with his brother Perses over their inheritance. Judgement went in favour of Perses; Hesiod retired to Naupactus, and is said to have been murdered by the sons of his host in the sacred precinct of Nemean Zeus at Oeneon in Locris. Subsequently Ascra was destroyed by the Thespians, its inhabitants settled at Orchomenus, and the Delphic oracle ordered Hesiod's remains to be transferred there.



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The Boeotians, people of the class of which Hesiod represents himself to be the type, were essentially unromantic; their daily needs marked the general limit of their ideals, and, as a class, they cared little for works of fancy, for pathos, or for fine thought as such.
Now of these two societies the domestic is the first, and Hesiod is right when he says, "First a house, then a wife, then an ox for the plough," for the poor man has always an ox before a household slave.
More, however, is made of appearances by this class of persons than by the others; for they throw in the good opinion of the gods, and will tell you of a shower of benefits which the heavens, as they say, rain upon the pious; and this accords with the testimony of the noble Hesiod and Homer, the first of whom says, that the gods make the oaks of the just--
 
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