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Hesiod (Hesiodus), an epic poet apparently of the eighth century BC, was born in Asia Minor but moved to Boeotia in central Greece. He was regarded by later Greeks as a contemporary of Homer. Three works survive under Hesiod's name: (1) Works and Days, addressed to his brother. In it he gives us the allegories of the two Strifes, and the myth of Pandora; stresses that every man must work; describes the accepted Five Ages of the world; delivers moral advice; surveys in splendid style a year's work on a farm; gives precepts on navigation; and propounds lucky and unlucky days. (2) Theogony, a religious work about the rise of the gods and the universe from Chaos to the triumph of Zeus, and about the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal men. (3) The Shield (not by Hesiod), an extract from a Catalogue of Women, the subject being Alcmena and her son Heracles and his contest with Cycnus, with a description of Heracles' shield. All three works are of great literary interest.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Hesiod Works and Days
• The Divination by Birds
• The Astronomy
• The Precepts of Chiron
• The Great Works
• The Idaean Dactyls
• The Theogony
• The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae
• The Shield of Heracles
• The Marriage of Ceyx
• The Great Eoiae
• The Melampodia
• The Aegimius Fragments of Unknown Position Doubtful Fragments
• The Homeric Hymns
• I To Dionysus
• II To Demeter
• III To Apollo
• IV To Hermes
• V To Aphrodite
• VI To Aphrodite
• VII To Dionysus
• VIII To Ares
• IX To Artemis
• X To Aphrodite
• XI To Athena
• XII To Hera
• XIII To Demeter
• XIV To the Mother of the Gods
• XV To Heracles the Lion-hearted
• XVI To Asclepius The Homeric Hymns (continued)
• XVII To the Dioscuri
• XVIII To Hermes
• XIX To Tan
• xx To Hephaestus
• XXI To Apollo
• XXII To Poseidon
• XXIII To the Son of Cronus, Most High
• XXIV To Hestia
• XXV To the Muses and Apollo
• XXVI To Dionysus
• XVII To Artemis
• XXVIII To Athena
• XXIX To Hestia
• XXX To Earth the Mother of All
• XXI To Helios
• XXXII To Selene
• XXXIII To the Dioscuri
• The Epigrams Of Homer
• The Epic Cycle
• The War of the Titans
• The Story of Oedipus
• The Thebais
• The Epigoni
• The Cypria
• The Aethiopis
• The Little Iliad
• The Sack of Ilium
• The Returns
• The Telegony Homerica
• The Expedition of Amphiara8s
• The taking of Oechalia
• The Phocais
• The Margites
• The Cercopes
• The Battle of the Frogs and Mice
• The Contest Of Homer And Hesiod
• Appendix
• Additions To Appendix
• Index