Hesiod (/ ' h i s i d / or / ' h s i d / ; Greek : sd, IPA / s i o ð o s / Esíodos ) was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought (he is sometimes identified as the first economist ), archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time -keeping.
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Articles about Hesiod or articles that mention Hesiod.
Here are a few random quotes by Hesiod.
See also: All Hesiod Quotes
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. Go to Quote / Comment
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. Go to Quote / Comment
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. Go to Quote / Comment
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. Go to Quote / Comment
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. Go to Quote / Comment