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| rdfs:comment | - Hesiod was born in Greece. During his childhood, he was sung ad nauseam Homer's poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey (along with the 8 others that have since been forgotten because they were either extremely boring or because they were burnt by jealous fake-poets, such as Hesiod) It is taught that he set forth to become a better, and worse, poet than Homer because of these constant reminders of the Prisonner's poetry because of this constant reminder of his poetry that includes gods loving, helping and hating men and being more passionate than the pityful species. Since the great mojority of people at his time taught that as well, it is common belief that he actually found those peoms credible.
- Hesiod was a Greek oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE. Since at least Herodotus's time Hesiod and Homer have generally been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived, and they are often paired. Scholars disagree about who lived first, and the fourth-century BCE sophist Alcidamas' Mouseion even brought them together in an imagined poetic agon, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. Aristarchus first argued for Homer's priority, a claim that was generally accepted by later antiquity. Hesiod's writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.
- Hesiod practised various styles of traditional verse, including gnomic, hymnic, genealogical and narrative poetry, but he was not able to manipulate them all fluently. Comparisons with Homer can be unflattering. As one modern scholar observed: "It is as if an artisan with his big, awkward fingers were patiently, fascinatedly, imitating the fine seam of the professional tailor."
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| abstract | - Hesiod was born in Greece. During his childhood, he was sung ad nauseam Homer's poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey (along with the 8 others that have since been forgotten because they were either extremely boring or because they were burnt by jealous fake-poets, such as Hesiod) It is taught that he set forth to become a better, and worse, poet than Homer because of these constant reminders of the Prisonner's poetry because of this constant reminder of his poetry that includes gods loving, helping and hating men and being more passionate than the pityful species. Since the great mojority of people at his time taught that as well, it is common belief that he actually found those peoms credible.
- Hesiod was a Greek oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE. Since at least Herodotus's time Hesiod and Homer have generally been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived, and they are often paired. Scholars disagree about who lived first, and the fourth-century BCE sophist Alcidamas' Mouseion even brought them together in an imagined poetic agon, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. Aristarchus first argued for Homer's priority, a claim that was generally accepted by later antiquity. Hesiod's writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.
- Hesiod practised various styles of traditional verse, including gnomic, hymnic, genealogical and narrative poetry, but he was not able to manipulate them all fluently. Comparisons with Homer can be unflattering. As one modern scholar observed: "It is as if an artisan with his big, awkward fingers were patiently, fascinatedly, imitating the fine seam of the professional tailor."
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