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Hesiod

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Zeus

Zeus is the youngest son of Cronos and Rhea. Earth tricks Cronos into believing a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes is Zeus and Cronos swallows the stone. When Zeus grows older, he rescues his brothers and sisters from Cronos' belly. Zeus sends Pandora to earth to release plagues and evils upon mankind as punishment for accepting the fire. He binds Prometheus to a rock and has an eagle eat his liver every day...

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Hesiod

1,124 words, approx. 4 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-reac... Read more

Hesiod

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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 o... Read more

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Female Role

632 words, approx. 3 pages

The book Theogony written by Hesiod explains the creation of the gods. Gods and goddesses are mentioned in the order of their creation. But there is a special way by which Hesiod refers to women. They... Read more

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