Hesiod
['hi:siɔd;'hes-]
Definition
(noun.) Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC).
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Examples
- And he who dies in battle will be at once declared to be of the golden race, and will, as we believe, become one of Hesiod's guardian angels. Plato. The Republic.
- He was just beginning to be conscious that the past had a history; but he could see nothing beyond Homer and Hesiod. Plato. The Republic.
- Those, I said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the great story-tellers of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
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