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Hesiod & The Hesiodic Corpus

Literary Classics

Hesiod & The Hesiodic Corpus

Including Theogony & Works and DaysBy Hesiod

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Hesiod & The Hesiodic Corpus

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Hesiod is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. To these days three works have survived which were attributed to Hesiod by ancient commentators: Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles. Only fragments exist of other works attributed to him. The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work. It concerns the origins of the world (cosmogony) and of the gods (theogony), beginning with Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus and Eros, and shows a special interest in genealogy. The Works and Days is a poem of over 800 lines which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by. This work lays out the five Ages of Man, as well as containing advice and wisdom, prescribing a life of honest labour and attacking idleness and unjust judges as well as the practice of usury. The subject of The Shield of Heracles is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. Contents: Hesiod's Works and Days The Divination by Birds The Astronomy The Precepts of Chiron The Great Works The Idaean Dactyls The Theogony The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae The Shield of Heracles The Marriage of Ceyx The Great Eoiae The Melampodia The Aegimius Fragments of Unknown Position Doubtful Fragments

Mythological World Folklore Gods & Mortals Hero Poetic Family Prophecy

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GenreLiterary Classics

Length5 hrs 15 mins

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Publish dateMay 28, 2021

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1INTRODUCTION

13THE IDAEAN DACTYLS

2General

14THE THEOGONY

3The Boeotian School

15THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE

4Life of Hesiod

16THE SHIELD OF HERACLES

5The Hesiodic Poems

17THE MARRIAGE OF CEYX

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6Date of the Hesiodic Poems

18THE GREAT EOIAE

7The Contest of Homer and Hesiod

19THE MELAMPODIA

8HESIOD’S WORKS AND DAYS

20AEGIMIUS

9THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS

21FRAGMENTS OF UNKNOWN POSITION

10THE ASTRONOMY

22DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS

11THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON

23OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST

12THE GREAT WORKS

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