How To Use Hesiod In A Sentence
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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
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It looks back ultimately to the Works and Days of the archaic Greek poet Hesiod.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Significantly, the idea of seasonability upon which Hesiod's poem depends describes a very unstable temporal order.
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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.
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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.
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Its Hesiodic style was appropriate for the cosmogony he describes in the second part, but is unsuited to the arid dialectic of the first.
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He invoked Aristaeus, that is, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom Hesiod calls ‘the shepherd Apollo.’
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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In support of this claim, they invoke the archaic Greeks, often citing Hesiod's Works and Days, among other classical sources.
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14: He invoked Aristaeus, that is, the son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom Hesiod calls 'the shepherd
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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In Hesiod's poem, as understood in Renaissance mythography, the myth of the birth of Venus recapitulated in little how the universe sustains itself through a lucky harmony of opposed elements.
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Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says ... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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He is often coupled with the archaic poet Hesiod who wrote the Theogony and Works and Days.
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Aegyptus himself did not go to Argos, but sent his sons, fifty in number, as Hesiod represented.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Several near eastern theogonies have survived, and can be compared to the work of Hesiod.
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Fragment #52 -- Diodorus [1737] v. 81: Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says ... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now Achaean.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The poem was accepted as Hesiod's in antiquity, but various indications point to the period 580-520 BC.
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Æther, &c, became, with the poets and philosophers after Homer, matters of speculation, of which the theogonies of Hesiod, Orpheus, Pherecydes, and others furnish proof.
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Baudelaire the poet has a special daimonic vision insofar as the poet has insight into the daimon described by Hesiod as unseen by the one being influenced.
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(Hesiod, “Works and Days,” 40 and 266.) are of near kin to what we find in the determination of Plato, in his books entitled Gorgias and Concerning the Commonwealth, to wit, that it is worse to do than to suffer injury, and that a man more endamageth himself when he hurts another, than he would be damnified if he were the sufferer.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Secondly, Hesiod claims that his father — if not he himself — came from Aeolis and settled in Boeotia.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Hesiod, it was called phorminx, which is believed to have been the form so often represented on Greek vases of a turtle shell with side pieces like horns, an instrument having but little effective resonance.
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As another Greek author, Hesiod, put it, "Keep away from the gossip of people.
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We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Hesiod represented Sicyon as the son of Erechtheus.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Hesiod's version shows some stylistic awkwardness and inconcinnity, but is not without power.
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We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
