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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek poet. The major epics ascribed to him are Works and Days, a valuable account of ancient rural life, and Theogony, a description of the gods and the beginning of the world.
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- proper noun An ancient Greek
poet and arhapsodist .
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- noun Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)
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There are twelve Titans [2] from their first literary appearance, in Hesiod, Theogony; Pseudo-Apollodorus, in Bibliotheke, adds a thirteenth Titan Dione, a double of Theia.
Louis Leterrier Explains How He Took on Clash of the Titans « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Light and dark, day and night (compare Haemera and Nyx in Hesiod).
A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006
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Light and dark, day and night (compare Haemera and Nyx in Hesiod).
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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"Hesiod" is a significant name and therefore fictitious: it is only necessary to mention Goettling's derivation from IEMI to ODOS (which would make 'Hesiod' mean the 'guide' in virtues and technical arts), and to refer to the pitiful attempts in the "Etymologicum Magnum" (s.v. {H} ESIODUS), to show how prejudiced and lacking even in plausibility such efforts are.
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This precept of his upon the uses of your woodland recalls Hesiod directly:
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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The Hesiod is the only valuable Greek MS. missing, and the principal Latin MS. of this collection, which did not pass into the
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Hesiod, which is almost Word for Word the same with his third Line in the following Passage.
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This comment by someone named "Hesiod" sums things up well:
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The Muses began their long career as vague minor spirits whom old Greek poets such as Hesiod invoked for inspiration.
Ancient Technocrats Finley, M.I. 1971
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Eratosthenes, however, says in his "Hesiod" that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of Ganyetor, killed him for the reason already stated, and were sacrificed by Eurycles the seer to the gods of hospitality.
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