Hesiodin a sentence
- Around 700 B.C., much of the Greek mythology was written down by Homer and Hesiod.† (source)
- Hesiod, Theogony, 744 ff.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- When he is overcome by the mysteries of the universe he turns to physics, not to Hesiod's hexameters.† (source)
- It was in a time that predates Hesiod or Homer.
- She hoped Hesiod was wrong.† (source)
- From Hesiod's poem to Nyx, the Greek personification of night: "There also stands the gloomy house of Night; ghastly clouds shroud it in darkness.† (source)
- 37 As known to the Greeks, this story is rendered by Hesiod in his account of the separation of Ouranos (Father Heaven) from Gaia (Mother Earth).† (source)
- I have also done some Hesiod, a little scrap of Thucydides, and a lot of the Greek Testament….† (source)
- This was a little cruel sometimes, when the back of what was cut out might be as innocent as Hesiod.† (source)
- What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer?† (source)
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- Their shared patterns of phrasing and storytelling point to a common tradition behind them, as do the songs of Hesiod, who lived around 700 B.C.: Hesiod uses the same meter as the Homeric poems, he shares much of their artificial poetic diction, and the stories he tells of early gods and heroes dovetail in many cases with the personnel of Trojan epics.† (source)
- 13 A final tale, recounted in part by Hesiod but ignored by Homer, explains why the Greeks are at Troy, for no less a reader of The Iliad than Pope admitted that "the reader … is apt to wonder at the Greeks for endeavouring to recover her at such an expense.† (source)
- …preluding thee, America, Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene, The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen, The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds, Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales,…† (source)
- What Were The Daemons Of The Ancients What kind of things they were, to whom they attributed the name of Daemons, appeareth partly in the Genealogie of their Gods, written by Hesiod, one of the most ancient Poets of the Graecians; and partly in other Histories; of which I have observed some few before, in the 12.† (source)
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