Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet, thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC. Hesiod’s ‘Theogony’ is a poem describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. It was sourced from various local traditions about the gods, synthesized and organized as a narrative that reveals their origin and the history of their rule over the cosmos. Hesiod declares – in the "Kings and Singers" passage – that it is upon him, the poet, that the Muses have bestowed the visible signs of kingship, a sceptre and an authoritative voice. This means that the authority of kingship now belongs to the poet, the voice declaiming the Theogony. Instead of being a definitive source of Greek mythology, the Theogony is a snapshot of a dynamic tradition frozen in time.
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Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet, thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC. Hesiod’s ‘Theogony’ is a poem describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. It was sourced from various local traditions about the gods, synthesized and organized as a narrative that reveals their origin and the history of their rule over the cosmos. Hesiod declares – in the "Kings and Singers" passage – that it is upon him, the poet, that the Muses have bestowed the visible signs of kingship, a sceptre and an authoritative voice. This means that the authority of kingship now belongs to the poet, the voice declaiming the Theogony. Instead of being a definitive source of Greek mythology, the Theogony is a snapshot of a dynamic tradition frozen in time.
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The Works of Hesiod :
The Hesiod Collection : The Works and Days, The Theogony, The Shield of Heracles
The Shield of Heracles
Ancient Greek Poetry. The Collected Works of Homer, Hesiod and Sappho : The Odyssey, Works and Days, Lyric Poetry
25+ The Big Book of Ancient Classics : The Odyssey by Homer, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Republic by Plato, Poetics by Aristotle and others
Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 1) : Enriched edition. Exploring the Depths of Ancient Greek Thought
Yale Classics (Vol. 1) : Enriched edition. Exploring the Essence of Ancient Wisdom and Literary Brilliance in Western Thought
Hesiod & The Hesiodic Corpus : Enriched edition. Including Theogony & Works and Days
10 Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature : The Odyssey, The Works and Days, Theogony, The Complete Poems of Sappho, Medea, Antigone, Oresteia, The Odes of Anacreon
Yale Classics (Vol. 1)
Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 1)
Yale Classics (Vol. 1) : Enriched edition.