Hesiod

How To Use Hesiod In A Sentence

• Hesiod said that they were sons of Aloeus, — called so after him, — and of Iphimedea, but in reality sons of Poseidon and Iphimedea, and that Alus a city of Aetolia was founded by their father. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
• It looks back ultimately to the Works and Days of the archaic Greek poet Hesiod.
• There are twelve Titans [2] from their first literary appearance, in Hesiod, Theogony; Pseudo-Apollodorus, in Bibliotheke, adds a thirteenth Titan Dione, a double of Theia. Louis Leterrier Explains How He Took on Clash of the Titans « FirstShowing.net
• In the Golden Age (which Hesiod says was long before his own time) men were naturally peaceable, and for that reason there was no war.
• The Hesiodic and Orphic cosmogonies were a phase of thought intermediate between mythology and philosophy and had a great influence on the beginnings of knowledge. Timaeus
• Significantly, the idea of seasonability upon which Hesiod's poem depends describes a very unstable temporal order.
• Because he is infinite meaning, life and being perfectly synthesized with finite form, the cave-painters at Lascaux, or Hesiod penning his hymns, or Beethoven working on his last quartets, were all gesturing towards him though they realized it not. To Manifest Transcendence: A Review of Aidan Nichols' "Redeeming Beauty"
• The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.
• Its Hesiodic style was appropriate for the cosmogony he describes in the second part, but is unsuited to the arid dialectic of the first.
• He invoked Aristaeus, that is, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom Hesiod calls ‘the shepherd Apollo.’ Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica