"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. e Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homericae is a collection of ancient Greek writings that are attributed to Hesiod, Homer, and others whose style. permission to use the restorations of the Hymn to Demeter, lines 387. All three works are of great literary interest. they are, is certainly after the Theogony. (3) "The Shield" (not by Hesiod), an extract from a "Catalogue of Women," the subject being Alcmena and her son Heracles and his contest with Cycnus, with a description of Heracles' shield. (2) "Theogony," a religious work about the rise of the gods and the universe from Chaos to the triumph of Zeus, and about the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal men. In it he gives us the allegories of the two Strifes, and the myth of Pandora stresses that every man must work describes the accepted Five Ages of the world delivers moral advice surveys in splendid style a year's work on a farm gives precepts on navigation and propounds lucky and unlucky days. Three works survive under Hesiod's name: (1) "Works and Days," addressed to his brother. He was regarded by later Greeks as a contemporary of Homer. Hesiod (Hesiodus), an epic poet apparently of the eighth century BC, was born in Asia Minor but moved to Boeotia in central Greece.
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