Sample Sentences forHesiod (auto-selected)
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Hesiod is not in the employ of you and Peter?† (source)
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Around 700 B.C., much of the Greek mythology was written down by Homer and Hesiod.† (source)
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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)
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When he is overcome by the mysteries of the universe he turns to physics, not to Hesiod's hexameters.† (source)
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Hesiod, Theogony, 744 ff.† (source)
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But Tane-mahuta pauses not, he regards not their shrieks and cries; far, far beneath him he presses down the earth; far, far above him, he thrusts up the sky.... 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)
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I have also done some Hesiod, a little scrap of Thucydides, and a lot of the Greek Testament...I wish there was only one dialect all the same.† (source)
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This was a little cruel sometimes, when the back of what was cut out might be as innocent as Hesiod.† (source)
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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)
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Hesiod is not of the local tribes, Christopher.† (source)
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She hoped Hesiod was wrong.† (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)
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"Hesiod is a curious name," I said instead.† (source)
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We call him Hesiod because some of the men here consider him a great poet.† (source)
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"Peter is my true assistant, not Hesiod," Mister Wilde said to me, as if he would have the truth acknowledged.† (source)
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