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Biography of Hesiod
1117 words, approx. 3.7 pages
 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...
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Biography of Hesiod
4653 words, approx. 15.5 pages
 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...


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Theogony Information
2,328 words, approx. 8 pages
 Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, theogonia = the birth of God(s)) is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies of the gods of the ancient Greeks, composed circa 700 BC. The title of the work comes from the Greek words for "god" and...


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 Philosophy East and West
The New Theogony: Mythology for the Real World.(Review) (book review)
04/01/1999: 5,016 words, approx. 17 pages The New Theogony: Mythology for the Real World. By Maria M. Colavito. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. Paradigm, Theory, Ritual It is now twenty-five years since my Four-Dimensional Man: Meditations through the Rg Veda (Stony Brook: N. Hays,...
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Female Role
606 words, approx. 2 pages
 This is an analysis of the Female Role in Greek mythology using the book "Theogony" by Hesiod as reference.


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