| 单词 | Hesiod |
| 例句 | There are no early sources for his story except a few brief allusions in Hesiod, in the eighth or ninth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But Hesiod, who was a peasant living in a poor man’s world, knew that the poor must have a just god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesiod in the eighth or ninth century tells about the Chimaera, and Anteia’s love and the sad end of Bellerophon are in the Iliad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have followed Apollodorus, but I have added the fragment from Simonides, and short quotations from other poets, notably Hesiod and Pindar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The earliest recorded contest took place at Chalds in around 700 bc, the poet Hesiod proudly penning a few lines in celebration of his winning a solo singing class there. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Pindar is quite as important for mythology as Hesiod. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesiod lived near Helicon, one of the Muses’ mountains—the others were Pierus in Pieria, where they were born, Parnassus and, of course, Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesiod says that only when men have finally become completely wicked will Nemesis and Aidos, their beautiful faces veiled in white raiment, leave the wide-wayed earth and depart to the company of the immortals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This led into an even longer argument—hard to follow and, to me, intensely boring—about whether Hesiod’s primordial Chaos was simply empty space or chaos in the modern sense of the word. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hesiod was a poor farmer whose life was hard and bitter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife is one of the three Graces in the Iliad, called Aglaia in Hesiod; in the Odyssey she is Aphrodite. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z With the exception of the story of Prometheus’ punishment, told by Aeschylus in the fifth century, I have taken the material of this chapter chiefly from Hesiod, who lived at least three hundred years earlier. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As she fell, Annabeth thought about Hesiod, the old Greek poet who’d speculated it would take nine days to fall from earth to Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Except in a story Homer and Hesiod tell, that Aglaia married Hephaestus, they are not treated as separate personalities, but always together, a triple incarnation of grace and beauty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The poet Hesiod, the first Greek who tried to explain how things began, wrote, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But Hesiod has much to say about the gods, and a second poem, usually ascribed to him, the Theogony, is entirely concerned with mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesiod, not much later than the Odyssey if at all, says of a man who does evil to the suppliant and the stranger, or who wrongs orphan children, “with that man Zeus is angry.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The performance of the panels pales in comparison with the score achieved by a marble head of the first century cataloged as the “head of a Greek poet, probably Hesiod, Roman Imperial.” Auctions: Roman History Leaves a Trail, and Fascination Follows 2011-06-17T11:30:06Z He also published several critically respected translations of classic works by Homer, Ovid and Hesiod. Daryl Hine, 76, Poet, Editor and Translator 2012-08-25T03:43:30Z I spent many a dull day with his Hesiod before concluding that this wasn't the case. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z Today, Hesiod is known for two works — a genealogical history of the gods titled “Theogony” and what Stallings calls this “variegated and discursive poem about justice and man’s place in the world.” Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Anne Carson compares her to Hesiod, and even in the new book, a slender essay collection called “The Condition of Secrecy,” you get a sense of her dazzling, polymathic intelligence. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z He noted that, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, "the first divine agent that caused creation was Eros - the spirit of erotic drive or the impulse to create anything." Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z He noted that, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, “the first divine agent that caused creation was Eros — the spirit of erotic drive or the impulse to create anything.” Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z Her Hesiod can even be inadvertently funny: “Don’t let a woman mystify your mind/ With sweet talk and the sway of her behind — / She’s just after your barn.” Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Their origin story varies but since we're talking about "The Handmaid's Tale" fourth season finale, "The Wilderness," let's go with the poet Hesiod's version. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Hesiod recommended letting newly picked grapes rest in the shade for up to three days, and Mr. Thackrey followed suit — even though most enologists would shrink at the risk of bacterial infection. Sean Thackrey, Creator of Eccentric California Wines, Dies at 79 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z That sounds very high-minded, yet “Works and Days” is a surprisingly personal work, grounded in a quarrel between Hesiod and his brother over a paternal inheritance. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Still, the most famous section of Hesiod’s poem is probably his heavy-metal account of ancient history. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z For guidance he instead turned to classical texts like “Work and Days,” a collection of instructions by the Greek poet Hesiod to his younger brother about running his estate. Sean Thackrey, Creator of Eccentric California Wines, Dies at 79 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But that morning, I found I could not look away from the creature described in Hesiod’s “Theogony” as breathing “invincible fire, terrible and huge, swift-footed and powerful.” Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The works of Homer and another epic, Theogony by Hesiod, are the source of much of Greek mythology. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z References to Shakespeare, Hesiod and the Bible crop up. ‘Prufrock’ puts a new dance spin on T.S. Eliot 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Cupid is the Roman incarnation of the Greek god Eros, who first appears in “Theogony” by the poet Hesiod. Five myths about Valentine’s Day 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z As Hesiod, the 8th-century B.C. poet, said: “Moderation is best in all things.” Resolved to Lose Weight in ’16? Join a Venerable Club 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z “Three were her heads,” Hesiod tells us, “one of a lion of flashing eyes, another of a she-goat and another of a snake, a mighty dragon.” Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Conservatives have always pretended to venerate the past, but it’s invariably an imaginary one, dating back at least to Hesiod’s mythical five ages. They are all complete frauds: Constitutional conservatives? The right’s big lie collapses in Benghazi lunacy 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Hesiod - an 8th/7th Century BC author whose works were as close as the Greeks got to a bible - described the first created woman simply as kalon kakon - "the beautiful-evil thing". Would you be beautiful in the ancient world? 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Justice, wrote Hesiod, poet of the ancient Greek masses and Homer’s rival, was “Zeus’s greatest gift” to us. Justice Is in Our Nature 2013-05-29T21:45:00.427Z At the neighbouring Ascra dwelt the poet Hesiod, a fact which probably enhanced the poetic fame of the region. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z They are, however, called the daughters of Night by Hesiod and others. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z In literature, from the times of Homer and Hesiod, she played an important part, appearing most frequently as the jealous and resentful wife of Zeus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z After the death of his father Hesiod is said to have left his native land in disgust at the result of a law-suit with his brother and to have migrated to Naupactus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The importance of Boeotia for Greek civilization is further shown by the ancient worship of the Muses on Mount Helicon, and the fact that the oldest poet whose birthplace was known was the Boeotian Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z According to Suidas, he also wrote a treatise on the poetry of Hesiod and Homer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Hesiod arranged and shaped Greek mythology to suit himself and his audience, so that it is quite impossible to learn from that author what the primitive myths of Greece were. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z It is noticeable that there is no mention of these Heraclidae or their invasion in Homer or Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Certain biographical details of Homer and Hesiod are also given. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Homer makes Tethys, the wife of Ocean, the daughter of Uranus and Terra, the first parents; and Hesiod, in his Cosmogony, raises Venus and Proteus from the foam of the sea. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The poet Hesiod, in the beginning of his Theogony, distinguishes the male and female, or generative and productive powers of Nature, as Ouranus and Gaia, Heaven and Earth. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z Hesiod alludes to it, and the account of the marvellous bird given by Herodotos was “stolen,” we are told by Porphyry, from his predecessor Hekatæos. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Hesiod says, that, before the time of Prometheus, mankind were exempt from suffering; that they enjoyed a vigorous youth, and that death, when at length it came, approached like sleep, and gently closed their eyes. A Vindication of Natural Diet. 2012-02-02T03:04:34.883Z The only other poem which has come down to us under Hesiod’s name is the Shield of Heracles, the opening verses of which are attributed by a nameless grammarian to the fourth book of Eoiai. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Hesiod dispels Chaos through the agency of Love. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Nectar, nek′tar, n. the name given by Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, &c. to the beverage of the gods, giving life and beauty: a delicious beverage: the honey of the glands of plants.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Hesiod weighs the advantages and disadvantages of the married state against one another with great thoroughness. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z He performed the miracles, according to Seneca and Hesiod, of curing the sick, restoring the blind, raising the dead, and casting out devils. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Hesiod, on the other hand, a poet of perhaps equal antiquity, but of an infinitely lower order of genius, has left his own likeness graphically delineated on his remains. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Thus the Aeolian Hesiod uses it in epos, the Dorian Theognis in elegy, though not without alloy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z After this follows a quantity of stuff that is traceable to Hesiod, and a part of which may be considered a paraphrase of Genesis. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z According to Hesiod, physical forces first engender each other, then in turn the gods and man. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z The Muses as Liars.—“We know how to tell many lies,” so sang the Muses once, when they revealed themselves to Hesiod.—The conception of the artist as deceiver, once grasped, leads to important discoveries. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Didactic poetry obtained in Lucretius and Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models, Empedocles and Hesiod. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This school is represented by the name of Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z This is almost the same idea that Hesiod propounds. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z She then assumes the character of Venus Marina, or Aphrodites of the Greeks, who, as Hesiod and Homer sing, arose from the sea, ascended to Olympus, and captivated all the gods. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Hence arise two different modes of action, which Hesiod designated good and bad Eris. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z They are to be regarded rather as philosophical rhapsodies than as purely didactic poems, like either the 'Works and Days' of Hesiod or the writings of the Alexandrine School. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In Hesiod’s Works and Days we have the earliest example of a didactic poem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Tablets of lead containing the works of Hesiod, a Greek writer, were deposited in the temple of the Muses in Bœotia. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The reason assigned was that, as they did not believe in the gods of Homer and Hesiod, they were not fit expositors on these points. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z They were all placed in the temple, and the poet Hesiod afterwards assigned them names and attributes. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Hesiod and Homer both mention the ash; the latter mentioning the ashen spear of Achilles, and telling us that it was by an ashen spear that he was slain. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z The epic lay in 480 lines called the Shield of Heracles—partly imitated from the 18th book of the Iliad—is the work of an author or authors later than Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z We have their authors from Hesiod to Photius, and still lower down; a library superior to that of any modern nation; for the trash has been swept away. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z What cleverer application could there be than this of the maxim of Hesiod that the half is sometimes more than the whole: Very dear Friend, we shall have some good music to-morrow morning at breakfast. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Hesiod speaks of them as the daughters of Night, but according to others, they were the offspring of Atlas and Hesperis. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Hesiod makes it the origin of his brazen men. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z Hesiod recognizes the existence of δαίμονες—spirits of the departed who haunt the earth as the invisible guardians of justice; and he connects the office of the poet with that of the prophet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z And Hesiod calls the snail, The hero that carries his house on his back. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z With good sense for his main portion to make the most of that little, he may well consider Hesiod's opinion of weight: "The half is better far than whole." Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z The supremacy claimed here on the score of strength, "by so much I am beyond gods and men," is elsewhere based on primogeniture,*** though in Hesiod Zeus is the youngest of the sons of Cronos. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z So too the aphorisms of Hesiod might naturally pass from mouth to mouth, and the stories of Herodotus be told by an old man at the fireside. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The early epos of Greece is represented by the Iliad and the Odyssey, Hesiod and the Homeric hymns; also by some fragments of the “Cyclic” poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z As also Hesiod says— A ceaseless spring of clear untroubled flow. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Carry rude Attic speech up to beauty and it becomes the language of Homer or Hesiod. Right Living as a Fine Art A Study of Channing's Symphony as an Outline of the Ideal Life and Character 2011-07-12T02:00:36.983Z But Hesiod, a much earlier poet, tells the story in the usual way, with the curse of the crow, and his consequent change of colour.** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Such is the idea of Plutarch, of Hesiod, and of Virgil. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Hesiod, indeed, sometimes gives us a glimpse of his own troubles or views. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z But— 'Tis sweet, at a banquet or festival meeting, To chat o'er one's wine, when the guests have done eating, says Hesiod in his Melampodia. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z They represent no mythological deities except in name, and least of all do they assort with the deities of Homer and Hesiod. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z The famous and beautiful hymn proves, as indeed may be learned from Hesiod,*** that the god was already looked on as the patron of the vine. * xi.325. ** xxiv. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Homer, Hesiod,—names with which the mouths of men have been familiar for centuries,—how little is now known of them! The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Yet Hesiod is, on the whole, essentially a prophet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z With respect to Mallows, Hesiod says— Nor do men know how great may be the good Derived from asphodel and mallow food. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z This was the Aphrodite of Grecian legend and poetry, if we except Homer and Hesiod. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z According to Hesiod, Zeus, the youngest child of child-swallowing Cronus, married Metis after he had conquered and expelled his father. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z They found him a rod neat and slender, In long garments they gave him to God; Then he wrote them the Farmer's Cal�nder, And Theogony too--Hesiod. Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems 2011-04-14T02:01:01.217Z In the year 1746, Thomas Cooke, the well-known translator of Hesiod, published proposals for a complete translation of Plautus, but he printed only the Amphitryon. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z And there is also one kind of barley cake which is called by Hesiod amolgæa. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z This last observation is, undoubtedly, frequently well founded: no where is the truth of old Hesiod's maxim, that a half is often greater than the whole, more frequently exemplified than in dramatic representations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Adonis was already known to Hesiod, who called him, with obvious meaning, the son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea, while Pausanias attributed to him, with equal significance, Assyrian descent.* Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Every one knows the excellence of the engraved designs to Homer, Dante, Aeschylus and Hesiod, in all cases save when the designer aims at that which he cannot hit, the terrible or the grotesque. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Hesiod's "Who trusts a woman trusts a thief;" or Phocylides' "Two days of a woman are very sweet: when you marry her and when you carry her to her grave." Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z These three divisions, to which are severally attached the more or less mythical names of Homer, Hesiod and Orpheus seem to have marked the earliest literary movement of the Greeks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z As such she appears in Homer and Hesiod and in post-Homeric legend as the slayer of the Gorgon and taking part in the battle of the giants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Hesiod codified certain priestly and Delphian theories about their origin and genealogies. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z When Hesiod fabled the god of oaths to be the son of Discord, the poet could hardly have foreseen the grim reality that would attach to his satiric allegory. A Cursory History of Swearing Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, �sop, Solon, Aristotle, Ph�drus, and many other ancient writers introduced them. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Among these, Homer and Hesiod, Virgil and Theocritus, introduced them with evident delight in their pastoral themes; while their heroes and demigods, Hercules and Ulysses, �neas and Numa, carefully perpetuated them throughout their regal domains. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. The most known of the works of Vulcan, which were presented to mortals, are the arms of Achilles, those of �neas, and the shield of Hercules described by Hesiod. Heathen Mythology We may now turn to the deity who was the acknowledged sovereign of the Greek Olympus during all the classical period from the date of Homer and Hesiod to the establishment of Christianity. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Hesiod has dimly chronicled the genealogy of oaths. A Cursory History of Swearing It is at least as ancient as Hesiod, who wrote his "Theogony," and introduced this proverb therein, some nine hundred years before the Christian era. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources He might still aspire to be the Homer, as he had proved himself to be the Theocritus and the Hesiod of his country. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Homer represents a hero as a prince of the ancient time, loved and protected by the Gods: while in Hesiod, they are the early order of beings who preceded the frail human race. Heathen Mythology "Homer and Hesiod named the gods for the Greeks;" so Herodotus thought, and constructed the divine genealogies. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The doctrine had assumed many forms in previous Greek thought from the days of Hesiod, and it has various aspects, and serves various purposes, in the hands of Plutarch, Apuleius, and Maximus of Tyre. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Hesiod introduces many proverbs in his writings, and we find them again referred to by Plutarch, Cicero, and others. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Though in spirit and poetical inspiration Virgil’s debt to Hesiod is greater, yet the Georgics present more direct traces of imitation of the Alexandrine poets. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He also edited Hesiod, the chief lyric, tragic and comic poets, arranged Plato’s dialogues in trilogies, and abridged Aristotle’s Nature of Animals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Yet in the Maori hymns there are metaphysical ideas and processes which remind one more of Heraclitus than of Hesiod, and perhaps more of Hegel than of either. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Hesiod’s daemons are the men of the golden age, translated to a blissful and immortal life, yet linked in sympathy with those still on earth—“Ministers of good and guardians of men.” Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The writer, who has been styled the Hesiod or Theognis of gluttons, parodies the style of the old gnomic poets; chief attention is paid to details concerning fish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Some of these passages have been suggested by parallel passages either in Hesiod or Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He edited Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles and other authors; but his chief fame rests on his critical and exegetical edition of Homer, practically the foundation of our present recension. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" In Hesiod, as has already been shown, the myth of the birth of Athene retains the old barbaric stamp. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Can it be that Apollo is a meaner artist than Hesiod or Homer? Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Compare the myth in Hesiod which relates how Kronos devoured a stone in the belief that it was his offspring, Zeus. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race It is inferior in simplicity and direct force of representation to the corresponding picture in Hesiod. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil This doctrine, stated in substance as above by the great philosopher of antiquity, is more fully expounded in a passage which he elsewhere quotes from Hesiod. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent However this may be, when we first encounter the gods in Homer and Hesiod, they have been organised into a family, with regular genealogies and relationships. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Its earliest appearance in Greece was in the Works and Days of Hesiod, who first definitely sketched a great scale of being—gods, heroes, daemons, and mortal men. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The name proves that these monies had at one time been the pay of the prytanes, in their judicial capacity, like the gifts in Homer and Hesiod. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 But Virgil’s practice is in accordance with that of all the Greek poets from Homer and Hesiod down to the latest Alexandrine writers. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Hesiod's Works and Days supplied a partial model, and the influence of Lucretius was powerful. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes No one man did this, we may believe, for Greece: though Herodotus thought it was done by Homer and Hesiod. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The passage of Hesiod is probably from the Ἠοῖαι, and there is no reason for supposing it spurious. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 It seems that the ash, which probably reached a greater height than any other tree in Greece, is used in this genealogy, as in Hesiod Theog. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 The literary impulse directing Virgil to the composition of the Georgics was probably the wish to be the Hesiod, as he had already been the Theocritus, of Rome. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil As ferryman of the dead he is not mentioned in Homer or Hesiod, and in this character is probably of Egyptian origin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The myths had been very long in circulation before we first meet them in Homer and Hesiod. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The confusion of the names of Hesiod and Cercops may, as it appears to me, be accounted for as follows. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 V. 19.—Hesiod the poet of the Helots, according to the saying of the Spartan.114.Herod. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 Among the sources of literary inspiration from which Virgil drew in the Georgics, the oldest, and not the least abundant, was the ‘Works and Days’ of Hesiod. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But there is also in Hesiod the duty to one’s neighbour, not according to the “perfection” of “Cristes lore,” but according to a law of honourable reciprocity in act and intent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Thus Pausanius relates that he saw the original copy of Hesiod's Works and Days written on leaden tablets. The Story of Books There are two other passages of Hesiod referring to the expedition of the Heraclidæ. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Hesiod he considers to be the teacher of the common herd, one with them, "a man," he says, "who does not even know day and night." A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Virgil also accepts the idea that the earth once was more productive than it is323, but he accepts it in the spirit of Hesiod rather than of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The sanctity of marriage is thus placed among the “commandments” of Hesiod, beside the duty towards the stranger and the orphan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" According to Hesiod, the oldest Greek poet after Homer, the Bear was once a lady, daughter of Lycaon, King of Arcadia. Custom and Myth New Edition Melisseus also, in his historical work on Delphi, appears to have derived the worship of Apollo from the borders of Macedonia, as may be conjectured from the fragment cited by Tzetzes ad Hesiod. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 In this sense did Socrates adopt the line of Hesiod— "Employ thyself in any thing rather than stand idle." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 Human life appeared to Hesiod as well as to Virgil to be in immediate dependence on the gods. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The period covered by the Odyssey seems to merge into that of Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" We cannot go much lower than the Bushmen, and among Bushman divine myths is room for the ‘swallowing trick’ attributed to Cronus by Hesiod. Custom and Myth New Edition Hesiod related this tradition in the part of the Ἠοῖαι or catalogue which treated of the daughters of Leucippus, one of whom is said to have been the mother of Æsculapius. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Chaos, or space, for the chaos of Hesiod differs from that of Ovid, came first, then Gaea, the earth, and Tartarus, or the lower world. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science He was familiar with the successive schools of Greek poetry, from Homer and Hesiod down to the epic and didactic poets of Alexandria. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In Hesiod we find the customary law of charity in the earlier community definitely stated, and also indications of the normal methods of neighbourly help which were in force in country districts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Now, story for story, the Bushman version is much less offensive than that of Hesiod. Custom and Myth New Edition The wounding of Ares is connected with the above by Hesiod Scut. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 In Hesiod she was the last of the nine sisters, but yet enjoyed a supremacy over the others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" But the graver aspect of Virgil’s faith is purer and happier than that of Hesiod; as the trust in a just and beneficent father is purer and happier than the fear of a jealous task-master. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In Hesiod the fundamental conceptions of charity are more clearly expressed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" But, while the Maori myth conceives of Heaven and Earth as of two beings which have never been separated before, Hesiod makes Heaven amorously approach his wife from a distance. Custom and Myth New Edition That the harvest begins at the rising of the Pleiades, is stated by Hesiod. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 These recitations, with or without musical accompaniment, soon included gnomic or didactic, as well as epic, verse; if Homer was a rhapsode, so was the sententious or “moral” Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Though Hesiod can scarcely have taken the highest rank as a poet, yet a peculiar reverence attached to his name from his great antiquity, and from the ethical and theological spirit of his writings. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil We may compare it to the “commandments” of Hesiod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" It is plain, from various fragmentary notices, that Hesiod was familiar with several of the adventures in the legend of Jason. Custom and Myth New Edition It appears, therefore, that they destroyed the emblem of that power by which the death of Narcissus was occasioned.1435.Hesiod ap. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Hesiod is supposed to have been a tiller of the ground in a Boeotian village, who determined to enrich his neighbours’ minds by putting his own ripe stores of useful information into sonorous metre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" By the Alexandrine writers the irregular and desultory treatment of Hesiod was abandoned. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Hesiod's genealogy of the gods, though refined upon by the schools of Plato, is of the same class with the divine genealogies of the Brahmins. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem In Hesiod she was still a novice, but less austere than she afterward appeared in the conceptions of Pheidias. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Aristarchus considered Apollo and Pæon in Homer as identical, yet Hesiod distinguishes them in the fragment in Eustath. ad Od. p. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 Historically examined, the legend of Hesiod becomes a shadow, but the substance of the poems attributed to him remains. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Hesiod heard the call of the Muses while leading his flock at Mount Helicon. Oriental Women Those four volumes were Homer's 'Iliad' and Hesiod, neither of which were very old, and two curious and rather early manuscripts on botany, full of rudely drawn figures of herbs. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant The Aphrodite whom Homer revealed differed from that of Hesiod. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Orpheus, Homer, and Hesiod imagined only the Chimera: Providence has created this terrible creature of the sea. Toilers of the Sea Other poems attributed to Hesiod, but now lost, were on astronomy, on auguries by birds, on the character of the physical world; still others seem to have been genealogies of famous women. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Hesiod's estimate of women is vastly inferior to that of Homer. Greek Women Homer and Hesiod, says Herodotus, made the Hellenic theogony, and Homer and Hesiod knew only of the passions and emotions which are common to all healthy semi-civilised humanity. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion If that woman did not, as Hesiod claimed, issue from the sea, she at least emerged from marble. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The oldest of the Greek myths of creation are to be found in Homer and Hesiod. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Homer and Hesiod call it the "Holy Day." Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Hesiod, the poet of the plain people, is impressed with the hopelessness of the conditions about him. Greek Women Homer and Hesiod forgot to tell us about Ganymede and Hyacinth and Hylas. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion From him, through problematic hands, it drifted to Hesiod, as already his lyre had drifted to Lesbos. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern I read somewhere lately that Hesiod, an old Greek, said that the gods have placed labor as a sentinel over virtue. Francezka Saturn had three sons, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto; and Hesiod speaks of the three sons which sprung from the marriage of heaven and earth. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Hence, laments Hesiod, hopeless is the lot of humanity, while innumerable ills pass hither and thither among hopeless men. Greek Women Hesiod names, as the three Graces, Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia, but he makes them the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome. Minor Poems by Milton It was not that serene divinity, it was the more human Aphrodite of Hesiod, that disturbed the Argive Helen. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern He also edited Hesiod and Pindar, Euripides and Aristophanes, besides composing brief introductions to the several plays, parts of which are still extant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Hesiod and Homer understood human nature infinitely better than Paul and Luther.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Hesiod tells us in this poem that in old days the human race had the use of fire, and in gratitude to the gods offered burnt sacrifice. Greek Women The account is Hesiod's, to whom the Orient had furnished the details. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Hesiod denounced the new ambitions, and, finding denunciation perhaps ineffective, employed irony. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The theogony of Homer is extended by Hesiod in many essential points. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Hesiod describes Atropos indeed as having sharp teeth and long nails, waiting to tear and devour the dead; but this image was of a barbarous era. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Hesiod, the epic poet of Boeotia, constitutes the bridge, as regards social conditions, between the Heroic Age and the early historical periods of the various peoples and cities of Greece. Greek Women In that description is the preface to a theogony of which Hesiod wrote the final page. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal This Ascra was a Valley near the Helicon, which was the Residence of the Parents of Hesiod. The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love His great characteristic is opposed to that axiom of Hesiod so often quoted, that “half is better than the whole;” a secret which the matter-of-fact men rarely discover. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It might therefore have been decided, � priori, that the most homely proverbs would abound in the most ancient writers—and such we find in Hesiod; a poet whose learning was not drawn from books. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Hesiod is usually ascribed to the second half of the ninth century before the Christian Era. Greek Women Like Hesiod, Swinburne erred, though perhaps intentionally, as poets should, for the greater glory of the Muses. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Now Hesiod was fabled, whilst he was keeping his Father's Sheep, to have been led by the Muse to the Fountain Hippocrene; and being, I suppose, well ducked in that Water, commenced Poet. The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love We are inclined to wonder whether the author or the printer is to blame for rendering the poet Hesiod's name as "Hesoid". Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Influence of Old Greek Life.—In all of the traditions and writings descriptive of the old Greek social life, with the exception of the Works and Days of Hesiod, the aristocratic class appears uppermost. History of Human Society Very probably in this work, Hesiod or his school told of the aristocratic women of Greek mythology, from whose union with gods had sprung heroes. Greek Women Hesiod, in like manner, sets the Happy Isles, the abode of departed heroes, beyond the deep ocean. Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Before the time of Prometheus, according to Hesiod, mankind were exempt from suffering; they enjoyed a vigorous youth; and death, when at length it came, approached like sleep, and gently closed the eyes. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery The best document preserved to us of this attempt to bring order into Chaos is the poetry of Hesiod. Five Stages of Greek Religion Such epochs have scarcely any resemblance to the Ages of Hesiod or of the Laws of Manu. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Lacking this, Hesiod is to us "the poet of the Helots," and we gain from him only knowledge of the common people of Boeotia and their manner of life. Greek Women What bounds can you set to the value of conversing with Orpheus, and Musæus, and Homer, and Hesiod? The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Hesiod exhorted the husbandman to —— for a harvest, but to do so with his hand upon the plow. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The work of Hesiod as a whole is one of the most valiant failures in literature. Five Stages of Greek Religion The details of his subject Vergil draws mainly from his Greek predecessors, Hesiod, Xenophon, Aratus, and Nicander, but it is to Lucretius he is chiefly indebted. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight The whole argument of Hesiod in this passage indicates that he regarded woman as "a necessary deduction from the happiness of life," as "the rift in the lute that spoils its music." Greek Women The prospect of Elysium is beautiful and inviting, as described by Homer, Hesiod and Pindar. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 Others seem to have been extracted from a Sumerian work on agriculture, with which Hesiod's Works and Days has been compared. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters At the back of Homer lay the lordly warrior-gods of the Heroic Age, at the back of Hesiod the crude and tangled superstitions of the peasantry of the mainland. Five Stages of Greek Religion Hesiod tells us that the days regarded as sacred in his day were the fourth, fourteenth and twenty-fourth of each month. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture This passage contains in brief Hesiod's general ideas concerning woman. Greek Women In the poetry of Hesiod, they spring from the earth imbued with the blood of the gods. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. According to Hesiod they were nine in number and presided over the arts. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' It begins at least as early as Pythagoras and Heraclitus, perhaps as early as Hesiod; for Hesiod seems sometimes to be turning allegory back into myth. Five Stages of Greek Religion Hesiod calls them the Seven Virgins, and the Virgin Stars. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture It seems strange that Hesiod, in describing farm duties, should not tell us more of the important function of the housewife. Greek Women Corresponding expressions of a moral character are hardly to be found in Homer; but as early as Hesiod and Solon we find, at any rate, Zeus as the representative of heavenly justice. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity The Greeks at an early period were attracted by this cluster of stars, and Hesiod alludes to them in his writings. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' The background is the pre-Hellenic 'Urdummheit'; the new shape impressed upon it is the great anthropomorphic Olympian family, as defined in the Homeric epos and, more timidly, in Hesiod. Five Stages of Greek Religion The night of the 8th he was unable to sleep, and talked a great deal to the Countess, seated by his bedside, about his work, and repeated part of Hesiod in Greek to her. The Countess of Albany The two centuries of Greek history following Hesiod are chiefly known to us through the lyric poets, as epic poetry declined and the writing of history had not yet begun. Greek Women In the Iliad Zeus is sometimes ignorant of the future and has to employ the scales of destiny, and in Hesiod appear the three Fates who control the lives of men independently of the gods. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV But what do these say of Homer and Hesiod? Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays A by-product of the same activity is the mystic treatment of language: a certain Titan in Hesiod is named Koios. Five Stages of Greek Religion And he muttered underbreath the old saw of Hesiod:— “He who doth a woman trust, Doth trust a den of thieves.” A Victor of Salamis A different note is struck by Archilochus's contemporary, Semonides of Amorgus, who takes up and continues the tradition of Hesiod in speaking of woman in tones of contempt and disparagement. Greek Women In the Homeric poems and in Hesiod we find a political or governmental organization of the gods which followed the lines of the social organization of the times. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV We have been accustomed to call the oracular sayings of men like Thales, Pythagoros, Xenophanes, or Herakleitos, philosophy, but there was in them as much of religion as in the songs of Homer and Hesiod. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays When the question was asked--"What is right?" the answer was given by a quotation from Homer, Hesiod, Simonides, and the like. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles He threw up his arms after the manner of a tragic actor:— “True, true is the word of Hesiod!” A Victor of Salamis The poet agrees with Hesiod in regarding woman as a necessary evil. Greek Women The thunderbolt of Zeus is said in Hesiod, Theogonia, 140 f., to be forged by the Cyclops. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Homer and Hesiod were great powers, but their poems were not the only feeders of the religious life of Greece. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays We shall," says he, "have to repudiate a large part of those fables which are now in vogue; and, especially, of what I call the greater fables,--the stories which Hesiod and Homer tell us. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles They make Æschylus, Euripides, Pindar, Homer, and Hesiod great monumental pillars of the progress of the human race. Ancient States and Empires The sign of interrogation is Sir William Hamilton's, and he was right to put it; for whatever the psychological connexion between Hesiod's dictum and V. P. V. D. may be, there is surely no historical. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Hesiod, Theogony, 941, where he is called the "bright joyous one." Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV In fact, the real question which a philosophy of mythology has to answer is this—Is the whole of mythology an invention, the fanciful poetry of a Homer or Hesiod, or is it a growth? Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays For instance, the poet Hesiod related an ugly story when he told how Uranus acted, and how Kronos had his revenge upon him. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The legends which Hesiod, Homer, and other poets made so attractive by their genius, have a perpetual interest, since they are invested with all the fascinations of song and romance. Ancient States and Empires What a curious similarity to the Edda, Homer, and Pindar, Hesiod, and the Hellenic primitive times! Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities In Homer and Hesiod, however, the conception of headship is complicated by the introduction of the idea of fate. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV I shall read an extract from the “Republic,” from the excellent translation lately published by Professor Jowett:— “But what fault do you find with Homer and Hesiod, and the other great story-tellers of mankind?” Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays Homer, Hesiod, the sacred poets, had looked at these questions in their purely poetic aspects. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Its inhabitants were famed for their stolidity, and yet it furnished Hesiod, Pindar, Corinna, and Plutarch to the immortal catalogue of names. Ancient States and Empires Max Müller has translated a page of Hesiod, substituting the analytic, abstract, rational language of our time for the image-making names. Essay on the Creative Imagination Hesiod makes him the son of Zeus and Hera,1337 but he never attains moral or other dignity; in the popular cult he remained, probably, merely the patron of war. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV In the time of Hesiod, the κλῆρος321 could be sold in case of need and added to the possession of another. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay In the education of youth, he would forbid parents and teachers repeating "the stories which Hesiod and Homer and the other poets told us." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Hesiod, who lived, it is supposed, four hundred years before Herodotus, is a great ethical poet, and embodied the views of his age respecting the great mysteries of nature and life. Ancient States and Empires In truth one may say that Homer herein shows features akin to Hesiod; well, Homer is Hesiod and many more. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Hesiod ascribes the invention of oaths to discord. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Hesiod an immigrant: not a typical case of a family. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay They floated down from ages on the tide of oral tradition before they were systematized, embellished, and committed to writing by Homer, and Orpheus, and Hesiod. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Before history commences, they had their epics, which, sung by the bards and minstrels, furnished Homer and Hesiod with materials for their noble productions. Ancient States and Empires The book seems to have resembled the “Works and Days” of the Greek poet Hesiod, except that it was not in verse. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Accordingly Hesiod introduces his work with recounting the genealogy of the Muses, to whom he assigns “an apartment and attendants, near the summit of snowy Olympus31.” An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients But the case of Hesiod is in itself somewhat exceptional. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay Orpheus, Hesiod, Homer, were the θεολόγοι--the theologians of that age. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles We have space, however, only for those legends which are of universal interest, and will first allude to those which pertain to gods, such as appear most prominent in the poems of Hesiod and Homer. Ancient States and Empires Homer, Hesiod, Demosthenes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Isocrates, and Lysias were indebted to the gods for all their science. A Source Book for Ancient Church History As time went on, other poets were associated with Homer in the work of education, such as Hesiod and the Tragedians. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Hesiod contrasts the ready help of the neighbour with the perfunctory slowness of the kinsman, duty-bound. On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay Following, as it would seem, the genealogy of Hesiod, he supposed water to be the primal element out of which all material things were produced. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Heraclitus speaks vehemently against Homer and Hesiod, and the learned men of his day. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity And the poet was called αοιδος So far Hesiod twice over secures the dignity of their office from misinterpretation. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 And so that line of Hesiod,647 "Invite your friend to supper, not your enemy," is not ridiculous, as some say, or stupid advice, but wise. Plutarch's Morals An ancient friend of mine, a clergyman, tells me that in Hesiod he finds a peculiar grace that he doesn't find elsewhere. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge He is not one to be afraid of the 'abundance of friends' which Hesiod does not approve; he is ready to enter into friendly relations with any. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation But they were in some danger of treating Homer and Hesiod as inspired scriptures. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Anticipating that doubt, Hesiod says that they sang as original poets. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 For good is that remark of Hesiod, "If to a little you keep adding a little, and do so frequently, it will soon be a lot." Plutarch's Morals I have treated of it in that book which I wrote respecting rural affairs, concerning which the learned Hesiod has not said a single word, tho he has written about the cultivation of the land. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome A bath, indeed, for all the Nereids named by Hesiod, with room enough for the Tritons and their herds and horses. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The works of eastern nations are full of these descriptions; and Hesiod's Theogony, and Milton's battles of angels, are puny in comparison with these rabbinical heroes, or rabbinical things. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 It is of no consequence whether Mr. Greg chooses the experience of Boeotia, Lombardy, or Yorkshire, nor whether he studies the relation of work to-day or under Hesiod, Virgil, or Sydney Smith. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature So Hesiod's Prometheus gives very good advice to Epimetheus, "not to receive gifts from399 Olympian Zeus but to send them back,"956 meaning external things and things of fortune. Plutarch's Morals Hesiod says he could run over ears of corn without bending the stems; and Demarātos says he could run on the surface of the sea.—Argonauts, i. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Hesiod highly celebrates him as a mild and peaceful old man, a lover of justice and moderation. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Hesiod and Tennyson, the Caverns of Ellora, and the magic caves of the Regent’s Park Colosseum, are jumbled confusedly one upon another. The Bon Gaultier Ballads In the third, he vindicates the history of the Serpent, and of Adam's fall; and retorts the ridiculous Theogony of Hesiod, &c. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March For Hesiod says, "Evil advice is worst to the adviser;"827 and, "He who plots mischief 'gainst another brings It first on his own pate." Plutarch's Morals The most weighty testimony for making the Lenaea an independent festival, even in historic times, is given by Proclus in a scholium to Hesiod. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musæus and Hesiod and Homer? The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 His Lexilogus, a valuable study on some words of difficulty occurring principally in the poems of Homer and Hesiod, was published in 1818-1825, and was translated into English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Hesiod, Drayton, and Jonson have all applied the epithet ‘great’ to the god Oceanus; in fact, throughout these lines Milton uses what may be called the “permanent epithets” of the various divinities. Milton's Comus The ante-chambers are devoted to Orpheus and Hesiod, and the ornaments are in the oldest Greek style; severely simple; archaic, but not rude; the figures of the friezes in outline, and without relief. Sketches This may be inferred from the allegorical description of Typhœus, given by Hesiod. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Homer's Zeus an array of antitheses, like that of Hesiod, 689-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The Scholiast above quotes a verse from Hesiod, where the Poet styles the Deity Αινηιος. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. The openly skeptical Euripides and Lucian are to be borne in mind as well as the apparently credulous Hesiod and Homer. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life And on the base of the statue is a representation of the birth of Pandora—the first woman, according to Hesiod and other poets; for before her there was no race of women. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two Add to this, that Homer and Hesiod, and the authors of the Orphic poetry, knew of no such duplicates. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) In Hesiod, the Earth, by its union with Tartarus, engenders Typhon, Chief of the Powers or Genii of Darkness. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He attributes to Homer, and to Hesiod, the various names and distinctions of the Gods, and that endless polytheism which prevailed. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Plato approvingly quotes Hesiod's statement that the souls of noble men become guardian demons coursing the air, messengers and agents of the gods in the world. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Yet it would be uncritical to place this poem in the class which derives from Hesiod. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Fitzherbert, who wrote on husbandry in the early sixteenth century, along with some sensible advice makes remarks, on the influence of the moon on horse-breeding, worthy of Hesiod. The Age of the Reformation In Hesiod it appears in the lowest type of human malignity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He informs us, that Homer and Hesiod were about four hundred years prior to himself; and not more. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. This distance is so great that, according to Hesiod, it would take an anvil nine days to fall from the centre to the nadir. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Hesiod with his poem on the life of man leads the way; and the writers of moral sentences in elegiac verse, among whom Solon and Theognis occupy the first place, follow. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The moralists, such as Theogins, the miscellaneous or didactic poets, such as Hesiod, are all alike below any notice in a sketch like this. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Hesiod is the first classic author who speaks of it. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary At what price would one not estimate one night of noble conference with Homer and Hesiod? The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Hesiod, Homer, Virgil, have given minute descriptions of hell and its agonies, descriptions which have unquestionably had a tremendous influence in cherishing and fashioning the world's faith in that awful empire. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Homer and Hesiod were prophets of the gods, and must not be expounded by unbelievers. The Arian Controversy The book which contains this law, the first of all, is itself the most ancient book in the world, those of Homer, Hesiod, and others, being six or seven hundred years later. Pascal's Pensées This imaginary contest with Hesiod did not even yet show the faintest presentiment of individuality. Homer and Classical Philology This blending may be seen very clearly in the mythology of Homer and Hesiod. Among Famous Books But he got over the difficulty by naming his nine attendants after the nine Muses, while he called his intimates Homer, Hesiod, and so on. The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence From first to last his "unPg 94approachable favourites" were Homer and Sophocles, and Hesiod was "a Greek friend to whom he turned with excellent effect." Matthew Arnold According to Hesiod, ������The wafting waves First bore her to Cythera the divine: To wave-encircled Cyprus came she then, And forth emerged, a goddess, in the charms Of awful beauty. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The lines are taken from a translation of Works and Days, by the Greek poet, Hesiod. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Mr. Ruskin sees no hope in this state of things; he preaches, in the spirit of old Hesiod, that there is no piety in a race which defiles the “holy waters.” Lost Leaders Hesiod's works were written on leaden tables: lead was used for writing, and rolled up like a cylinder, as Pliny states. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The poet is full of inquiry as to origins, even etymological, as is Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological And dear deaf old Hesiod—and—all, all are perfect, perfect! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 This was a little cruel sometimes, when the back of what was cut might be as innocent as Hesiod. Initial Studies in American Letters In truth, this would-be scientific mode of speech is as anthropomorphic as is the cosmogony of Hesiod, only on a smaller scale. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The expression is evidently borrowed not from Hesiod, nor from Lucretius, but from a brother at home. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Homer usually ignores them: Hesiod and the authors of the Hymns are less noble in their selections. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Homer and Hesiod, 750 B.C., allude to a few stars and groups. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Scattered up and down these frosty but kindly old pages are scraps of wisdom on all kinds of subjects—for life is Hesiod's theme as well as agriculture. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Hence Hesiod makes the god of oaths the son of Esis or of contention. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 The description of the monster Error, or Falsehood, is based on Hesiod's Echidna, Theog. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I But these, in the Greece of the Epics and Hesiod, have long been subordinated to Zeus and the Olympians, who are envisaged as triumphant gods of a younger generation. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological For even these, who had none of the advantages of scripture or of a written divine law, believed, many of them, in God, such as Orpheus, Hesiod, Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Cicero, and others. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Hesiod also was a better farmer than Virgil, and a poet into the bargain, though the Mantuan had him there. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Even Hesiod, centuries earlier, advises a father not to bring up more than one son, and daughters were sacrificed more frequently than sons. Outspoken Essays This beautiful epithet of Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, is borrowed from Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient poets. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Throughout the poetry of Hesiod, we find this feeling ever predominant, a feeling which Virgil and Tibullus well knew how to appreciate. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. The Theogony of Hesiod, or Book of Genesis of the Greek gods, gives us the history of three generations of deities. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology There is a good deal of Polonius in Hesiod, who addresses his Works and Days to his brother Perses, a bad lot. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary We need not be reminded that these stanzas are almost a cento from Virgil, Hesiod, and Ovid. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Hesiod had not the grace of mind or imagination to idealize anything; he sets down the life of the lower orders with a realism comparable to that of the English Crabbe. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It is probable that Hesiod was aware of the devastating eruptions of Aetna before the period of Greek immigration. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 The substance of Hesiod's charming account of these three groups of gods is as follows:— First of all things was Chaos. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Elsewhere in his poem Hesiod recommends something more in accord with modern practice: Your house, your ox, your woman you must have; For she must drive the plow—not wife but slave. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary And if he was "the inventor of letters," and is "placed anterior to both Homer and Hesiod," then what follows? Five Years of Theosophy Well, he wandered the islands, singing; "laying the nexus of his songs," as Hesiod says in the passage from which I quoted just now, "in the ancient sacred hymns." The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Six years earlier he had inscribed to Bacon, then Lord Chancellor, a translation of Hesiod's "Works and Days." The Age of Shakespeare And we find at least two of them, Heaven and Earth, represented in Hesiod's first class of the oldest deities. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology But neither Homer, nor Hesiod, nor any Greek I ever read had any mercy on women. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary The poet Hesiod will interpret such a case. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Homer's contemporary, Hesiod, tells in his Works and Days of the plebeian and peasant life of his time. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Voyagers have traversed the deep in all directions, and found no Hesiod's islands of the blessed. New Tabernacle Sermons Thus also," says Clement, "the Ascræan Hesiod dimly speaks of God:— 'For he is the king of all, and monarch Of the immortals, and there is none that can vie with him in power.' Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology That, surely, bespeaks a happier end to Hesiod. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary According to Hesiod, the oldest Greek poet after Homer, the Bear was once a lady, daughter of Lycaon, King of Arcadia. Custom and Myth So he lets in bits now and again that belong to the state of things Hesiod describes, and confirm the truth of Hesiod's dismal picture. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 And from out of the plain where ‘Mars loved to dance,’ rises the Muses’ haunt, Helicon, by whose silver streams Corinna and Hesiod sang. Miscellanies After Homer and Hesiod, among the Greek poets, come the lyrists. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Indeed, one of Hesiod's reasons for instructing him in good farming was that thereby he might perhaps prevent him from spunging on his relations. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary It is plain, from various fragmentary notices, that Hesiod was familiar with several of the adventures in the legend of Jason. Custom and Myth There were reminiscences of a long past splendor; and an atmosphere about them, I think, more mellow and peace-lipped than anything in Hesiod or Homer. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The nature of this wisdom of his seems to have been much of the same kind as that which made the reputation of Hesiod, in the collection of maxims known as the 'Works and Days.' Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Every religion which we have thus far considered has its sacred books, but that of Greece has none, unless we accept the works of Homer and Hesiod as its Bible. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Hesiod in more than one page lets you know what he thinks about them. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary But, while the Maori myth conceives of Heaven and Earth as of two beings which have never been separated before, Hesiod makes Heaven amorously approach his wife from a distance. Custom and Myth And Hesiod teaches, that good Husbandry ought to be in the Middle, it is too soon in the Beginning, and too late in the End. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. Homer and Hesiod were as safe with him as with Horace Jewdwine. The Divine Fire We find abundant traces of them not only in Hesiod and Virgil, but in Homer and Chaucer. The Art of Letters Indeed, you stood four-square to fate in Tusser's time; and in that particular, as well as in another which I must speak of next, you were much nearer to Hesiod's farmer than to ours. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary At what price would you not estimate a conference with Orpheus and Musæus, Hesiod and Homer? Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates Ga. Hesiod spoke right enough concerning Wine, but of Time no good Husbandry is unseasonable. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. A similar transformation occurs in Hesiod, where the transformed Metis is swallowed by Zeus. A Study of Fairy Tales Cicada--There are certain schoolmen who barely allow Homer to be a poet, and set down Virgil, Ovid, Martial, Hesiod, Lucretius, and many others as versifiers, judging them by the rules of poetry of Aristotle. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 There should be less practice than Tusser gives you, less art than the Georgics, but rather more of each than Hesiod finds occasion for. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary It is only necessary to refer to the Jewish ritual books of the Old Testament, to Hesiod, and to the customs prevalent among Mohammedan peoples. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Of the knowledge which the Greeks possessed at this time, on the subject of geography, we must draw our most accurate and fullest account from the writings of Homer and Hesiod. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson The Gods, said Hesiod, have placed labour before virtue; the way to her is at first rough and difficult, but grows more smooth and easy, the further you advance in it. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant The last of the four great ages of the world described by Hesiod. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Their treatment under Tusser's handling brings the husbandman poet very near to Hesiod, in whose time servitude was not called by any other name. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary It has been said that few things tended more strongly against morality than the stories of the gods preserved by Homer and Hesiod. The Jesus of History With what envy I looked at Flaxman's picture of Hesiod sitting at the feet of the Muse! Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Of Greek, the Economist of Xenophon, and Hesiod, which Ruskin undertook to translate into prose. The Life of John Ruskin Hesiod divides mankind into three classes—those who think for themselves, those who think as others think, and those who do not think at all. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete In character Loki has more in common with the mischievous spirit described by Hesiod, than with the heroic figure of Aeschylus. The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 Nothing of this is to be found in the ancient sages and moralists, not in Hesiod, nor in the maxims of Greece any more than in Confucius. Essays Æsthetical The interest of the first is mainly centered upon the heroes of Homer and Hesiod. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art The cosmogonic poetry is in its outlines not unlike that of Hesiod, but develops the ruder ideas at greater length. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 This agreement of the Socialist Hesiod with the Capitalist Cato is remarkable only as it illustrates that both systems when wisely expounded rest on human nature. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro What I read," he told me, "were not voyages and travels, but all literature, sir, all ancient writers, all manly; though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Hesiod and Virgil have brought the assistance of the Muses in praise of agriculture. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces The entrance halls are decorated with paintings of the Argonauts and illustrations of the Hymns of Hesiod, after drawings by Schwanthaler. Views a-foot The poetry of Homer and Hesiod is ancient, as having been sung and written when the society in which the authors lived, and to which they addressed themselves, was in its comparative infancy. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers Varro cites fifty Greek authors on the subject whose works he knew, beginning with Hesiod and Xenophon. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro Homer, Hesiod, and Menander were the favourite authors studied; only later on, after the full bloom of the Augustan literature, did Latin poets, especially Virgil and Horace, take a place of almost equal importance. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero His "Hesiod" catches the classical tone and spirit with considerable success. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes What, except the mere idea, did the Georgics borrow from Hesiod? and whoever thinks of comparing the two poems? Famous Reviews Homer and Hesiod intimate to us how this Art should be applied, when they represent the Muses as surrounding Jupiter, and warbling their Hymns about his Throne. The Spectator, Volume 2. All those whom I have named wrote in prose, but there are those also who have written in verse, as Hesiod of Ascra and Menecrates of Ephesus. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro The plan of the most finished didactic poem in the Latin tongue was taken from Hesiod. Lays of Ancient Rome Hesiod tells us to drink without stinting of The end and the beginning of the cask. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans In the Theogony of Hesiod, Uranus is represented as being the parent of three sons, and the same legend repeated in the story of Cronus portrays him also as a triplicated deity. The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion A city of Arcadia, so named after Pallas, one of Lycaon's sons, according to Hesiod. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod, for example, in his poem Works and Days, describes minutely five successive ages, during each of which the earth was peopled by an entirely distinct race. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 I have also done some Hesiod, a little scrap of Thucydides, and a lot of the Greek Testament… I wish there was only one dialect all the same. Jude the Obscure Nay, have we not the authority of Hesiod for affirming that when they are dead They are holy angels upon the earth, authors of good, averters of evil, the guardians of speech-gifted men? The Republic "Though we live in indolent Ionia, we still believe Hesiod's maxim, that industry is the guardian of virtue," rejoined Anaxagoras. Philothea A Grecian Romance It was immortal and was given them by their mother Nephele, and had a golden fleece, as Hesiod and Pherecydes say. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, follows Hesiod exactly as to nomenclature and very closely as to substance. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The river-gods, who, according to Hesiod's Theogony, were the sons of Oceanus and Tethys. Poetical Works of Akenside We are commanded, it is true, in that precept of Hesiod, so much admired by the learned, to return with the same measure we have received; or, if possible, with a larger. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. She often reminds me of Hesiod's description of Leto: 'Placid to men and to immortal gods; Mild from the first beginning of her days; Gentlest of all in Heaven.' Philothea A Grecian Romance It seems certain that 'Hesiod' stands as a proper name in the fullest sense. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica The Greek word is used by Homer as a personal epithet, and by Hesiod for the hard metal in armour, while Theophrastus applies it to the hardest crystal. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 On this account, they are of higher authority than any other mythological work now extant, the Theogony of Hesiod himself not excepted. Poetical Works of Akenside Do you think it nothing to speak with Orpheus, Musceus, Homer, and Hesiod? The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays A lover of trees, birds, and whispering breezes will say that here at least is a corner of the Happy Fields of Homer, or the Islands of the Blest described by Hesiod. Holidays in Eastern France In a word, there is no more solid ground for treating Perses and his quarrel with Hesiod as fictitious than there would be for treating Cyrnus, the friend of Theognis, as mythical. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica If we reflect that this hymn was composed centuries before the time of Hesiod, we shall be better able to appreciate the speculative character of the Indian mind in its earliest stage. Popular Tales from the Norse In like manner we have 'Hermes Harris,' 'Pliny Melmoth,' 'Demosthenes Taylor,' 'Persian Jones,' 'Abyssinian Bruce,' 'Microscope Baker,' 'Leonidas Glover,' 'Hesiod Cooke,' and 'Corsica Boswell.' Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 By Homer and Hesiod, the great poets of the prehistoric age, the gods in these successive dynasties, their offices and mutual relations, were depicted. Outline of Universal History Hesiod, although much esteemed for the moral tone of his compositions, presents very few ideas indeed capable of being accommodated to the theology of an improved age. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Thirdly, there is the passage in the "Theogony" relating to Hesiod and the Muses. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Plato knew of hell as Tartarus, and the battle of the giants in Hesiod is no fiction, but an obscured tradition of the war once waged in heaven. Milton According to Hesiod, he was the son of Demeter; agriculture is in truth the most solid foundation of wealth. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 In Hesiod they stand in a connected scheme or theogony. Outline of Universal History I like reading Hesiod, meaning the Works and Days. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The story of the end of Hesiod may be told in outline. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica As for Pantagruel, he said that here was the seat of Arete—that is as much as to say, virtue—described by Hesiod. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Orpheus taught us the mystic rites and the horrid nature of murder; Musaeus, the healing of ailments and the oracles; Hesiod, the tilling of the soil and the times for delving and harvest. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Hesiod is better informed about places: he knows something of the Nile and of the Scythians, and of some places as far west as Syracuse. Outline of Universal History It was the language of Homer, Hesiod, and Herodotus. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities After the contest at Chalcis, Hesiod went to Delphi and there was warned that the 'issue of death should overtake him in the fair grove of Nemean Zeus.' Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica "Booby, not to have understood by how much the half is more than the whole," is the quaint cry of Hesiod. Moral Philosophy First, Orpheus taught you religious rites, and from bloody murder to stay your hands: Musaeus healing and oracle lore; and Hesiod all the culture of lands, The time to gather, the time to plough. The Frogs Hesiod was the founder of a more didactic sort of poetry. Outline of Universal History The poetry of Hesiod is a faithful transcript of the whole condition of Boeotian life. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Quintillian's 1111 judgment on Hesiod that 'he rarely rises to great heights... and to him is given the palm in the middle-class of speech' is just, but is liable to give a wrong impression. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica You would not persuade a child that it was right to pull mother's hair; or that half an orange was literally, as Hesiod says, "more than the whole." Moral Philosophy Hesiod, quite unlike his contemporaries, the "later" poets of Iliad and Odyssey, gives to Heracles an iron helmet and sword. Homer and His Age Hesiod was the first of a Boeotian school of poets. Outline of Universal History It is difficult to tell when this association was formed in Greece, but we find in Hesiod something of the Orphic spirit, and the beginning of higher and more hopeful views of death. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Hesiod has given their descent by calling them after Actor and Molione; but their father was Poseidon. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica "Yes, so Hesiod spoke a thousand years ago, and I must confess his words are well deserved, but what can one do?" Historical Miniatures Suppose that, though they lived in an age of iron weapons, they knew, as Hesiod knew, that the old heroes "had warlike gear of bronze, and ploughed with bronze, and there was no black iron." Homer and His Age Homer and Hesiod had accounted for the operations of nature by referring them to the direct personal action of different divinities. Outline of Universal History The poetry of Hesiod appears struggling to emerge out of the narrow bounds of common life, which he strives to ennoble and to render more endurable. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Fragment #1—Contest of Homer and Hesiod: Homer travelled about reciting his epics, first the "Thebaid", in seven thousand verses, which begins: 'Sing, goddess, of parched Argos, whence lords...' Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica This cursed race truly belongs to the Iron Age as described by Hesiod. Historical Miniatures Why did they describe the old knives and axes as of iron, while Hesiod knew, and could have told them—did tell them, in fact—that they were of bronze? Homer and His Age What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus, and Musaeus, and Hesiod, and Homer? The Pleasures of Life The "Theogony" of Hesiod is a production of the highest importance, as it contains the religious faith of Greece. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Hesiod, however, was annoyed by Homer's felicity and hurried on to pose him with hard questions. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Virgil's treatment is partially adapted from the Alexandrines; but, as he himself says, his real model is Hesiod. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius From Hesiod he would learn all that he needed to know about his gods and their relation to him and his people. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Hesiod told the world, some two thousand years ago, how much greater the half is than the whole. Friends in Council — First Series These notions concerning the gods must have undergone many changes before they assumed the form under which they appear in the poems of Homer and Hesiod. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Hesiod, then, began: 'Homer, son of Meles, inspired with wisdom from heaven, come, tell me first what is best for mortal man?' Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod, Parmenides, and Empedocles were, indeed, cited as examples. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Then followed Hesiod, Theognis, the Greek poets, and the fables of Aesop. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization And Hesiod also insists upon the dragon's eyes. Old Calabria Hesiod's fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale is an instance. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes Here again Homer had fairly met Hesiod, and so the latter turned to sentences of doubtful meaning 3702: he recited many lines and required Homer to complete the sense of each appropriately. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Legend tells of him, as of Hesiod, that in his infancy a swarm of bees settled upon the cradle in which he lay, giving an omen of his future poetic glory. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Some of the proverbs must be taken from an agricultural treatise of the same nature as the "Works and Days" of Hesiod. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature You must read the Book of Genesis and Hesiod and Berosus and the rest of them. Old Calabria I have been greatly pleased, but most, I think, with the Hesiod,—the Titan battle quite amazed me. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 The first of the following verses is Hesiod's and the next Homer's: but sometimes Hesiod puts his question in two lines. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Reflections of this sort have gradually determined me not to grumble at the age in which I happen to have been born—a natural tendency certainly older than Hesiod. Impressions of Theophrastus Such And long before him Hesiod says Phineus was carried by the Harpies— "To the Land of the Milk-fed nations, whose houses are waggons." The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 It is from Homer and Hesiod that we get an idea of the gods of Greece, not from Herodotus or Xenophon. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations Can he be the same Hesiod who did the Titans? the latter is— "——-wine Which to madness does incline." The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 After the gathering was dispersed, Hesiod crossed to the mainland and went to Delphi to consult the oracle and to dedicate the first fruits of his victory to the god. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Whilst we were at supper, Apollo played on the harp, Silenus danced a cordax, and the Muses repeated Hesiod’s Theogony, and the first Ode of Pindar. Trips to the Moon Here, said I to myself, is the poet of rural life in this country--our Hesiod, our Theocritus, except that he writes without the restraint of numbers, and is a greater poet than they. Precaution Thus he sings,-- "Such things of the gods are related by Homer and Hesiod As would be shame and abiding disgrace to mankind,-- Promises broken, and thefts, and the one deceiving the other." Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations The ancient Greeks had considered Homer and Hesiod as the inspired recorders of the facts of religion. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism Fragment #15—3005 Contest of Homer and Hesiod: 'So they feasted all day long, taking nothing from their own houses; for Agamemnon, king of men, provided for them.' Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica In poetry Homer was far beyond them all; Hesiod, however, got a prize. Trips to the Moon Hesiod tells us how Jove made the third or brazen race out of ash trees, and Hesychius speaks of "the fruit of the ash the race of men." The Folk-lore of Plants Clio is the first of the nine Muses in Hesiod's Theogony, and is usually represented with an open roll of paper or a chest of books. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Its chief monuments are the epics of Homer and of Hesiod. Mosaics of Grecian History Hesiod, therefore, began as follows: 'When the Pleiads, the daughters of Atlas, begin to rise begin the harvest, and begin ploughing ere they set. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Thus he sings,— "Such things of the gods are related by Homer and Hesiod, As would be shame and abiding disgrace to mankind,— Promises broken, and thefts, and the one deceiving the other." The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Well then: you know your Homer and Hesiod, of course? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Clio is the first of the nine Muses in Hesiod's Theogony, and is usually represented with an open roll of paper or a chest of books. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Hesiod is the representative of a school of bards which first developed in Boeotia, and then spread over Phocis and Euboea. Mosaics of Grecian History He continued to stay a somewhat long time at Oenoe, until the young men, suspecting Hesiod of seducing their sister, killed him and cast his body into the sea which separates Achaea and Locris. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica The Scythians were a wandering nation, and are described by Hesiod as "living in covered carts and feeding on mare's milk." From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan During dinner, Apollo harped, Silenus danced his wild measures, the Muses uprose and sang to us from Hesiod's Birth of Gods, and the first of Pindar's odes. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 |
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