The Greek poet Hesiod (active ca. 700 BC) was the first didactic poet in Europe and the first author of mainland Greece whose works are extant. His influence on later literature was basic and far-reaching. The facts about Hesiod are shrouded in myth...

It was a Boeotian peasant of the eighth century B.C. who wrote the earliest surviving systematic account of the gods of the Greeks -- the Theogony -- as well as the only surviving archaic Greek poem on farming -- the Works and Days. This is the...

HESIOD (Gr., Hēsiodos; fl. c. 730–700 BCE) was one of the earliest recorded Greek poets. The earlier of his two surviving poems, Theogony, is of interest to students of Greek religion as an attempt to catalog the gods in the form of a...

Hesiod (Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hesiodos) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. Hesiod and Homer, with whom Hesiod is often paired, have been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived since at least...

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha begins Dictee with an epigraph: "May I write words more naked than flesh, / stronger than bone, more resilient than / sinew, sensitive than nerve" (1995, n.p.). Cha's comparison of words to the flesh, bone, sinew, and nerve curiously...

Connections between the oldest surviving Greek literature and ancient Mesopotamian texts are a fascinating but difficult field of study, where the borders between the highly plausible, the possible, and the improbable are not clearly defined. The most successful work so far has been...

Through Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod expressed a hostility toward women that was endemic throughout Greek antiquity. His misogyny is best revealed through his story of Pandora, the creation of women. The very idea that women were created as an affliction for mankind proves that Hesiod looked down upon women with disdain.