The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not have the meaning there that it has in modern languages; ...

—Hesiod, Works and Days lns. 42-60, 90-105 (ca. 700 BCE)(H.G. Evelyn-White transl. 1914) The legend of Pandora exists in many forms in the literature of antiquity, but the recounting of the Homeric ...

Bad’s had for the taking, woes galore, The road is smooth and short—She lives next door. The strait and narrow path the gods have set To Virtue is steep and long and paved with sweat. It’s hard going ...

Hesiod probably lived around 700 years before Christ, and more or less in the same time as Homer, who is the other most frequently quoted Socratic source. As we have observed before, ...

Hesiod and his brother, Perses, had inherited a large estate from their parents, but Perses had squandered his half and was bribing local officials to let him seize Hesiod's share as well.

Natalie stands up for the prize-winning Greek poet, cataloguer of gods and author of a flatpack wagon manual, Hesiod. She's joined by Professor Edith Hall and poet Alicia Stallings. Hesiod is ...

A new imaging technique, developed by Northwestern University, revealed that a book printed in 1537 was made using recycled medieval parchment containing sixth-century Roman Law code.

Hesiod's Works and Days is one of the first poems in the canon of Western literature and the poet was highly respected in Ancient Greece. The eight century poem runs to a mere 30 pages in AE ...

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