Hesiod is best known for his poems Works and Days and the Theogony.
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It’s thanks to Theogony that we know the widely accepted canonical genealogy of the gods, including the primordial deities, the Titans and the gods yheogony Olympus, and it’s thanks to Works and Days that we have an idea of some of the more ancient civilisations of Greece, described and mythologised by Hesiod as the Golden, Silver and Bronze ages, but widely believed to refer to previous civilisations.Unlike Homer, Hesiod tells us about himself and his family he lived in central Greece in the late eighth century BC. m#�㣰Z4�l�?UkEWh����e-�����x�l���kP�u����LԺV)Q6�x�6B�2�lH��� |��=���]Mq78�K�D�j��dS(c���J�d%�j�(�gD�4e}P�o }����7��j6����ս|���M��2f߂���j��o3��/�:��I5���9Ik�� dU!�7�~+\��;��o��*���t8�y�r��U�4jF��E �6]�4*����`~4��2��aK�Y� 0�ѕ�E^"�0R���JZ�g��j�NL�n�(MW1�[cU�sp��y���d��R;���*p��$�_N'̧�����o.8��L�W"��]H�B���E5��N,����
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It also reinforces the point of the Classics professors that the important intellectual debates are all very old.Although Hesiod directs this poem to his brother, the translator asserts it likely was meant for a general audience. 0000002665 00000 n
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