The complete online text of Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod.

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 and...

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 received...