HESIOD c.753 ? - c.680 BC Greek Poet Hesiod was the first major Greek poet after Homer and the first of mainland Greece whose works survived until today. The seriousness of Hesiod served as a counterpart to the more glamorous poetry of Homer.
Two of his complete epics have survived, the 'Theogony' in
which Hesiod tried to solve conflicting accounts of the
Greek gods, and the 'Works and Days', describing peasant life.
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