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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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Hesiod, Theogony, 744 ff.† (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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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, dividing the world into its different ages, has placed a fourth age, between the brazen and the iron one, of "heroes distinct from other men; a divine race who fought at Thebes and Troy, are called demi-gods, and live by the care of Jupiter in the islands of the blessed."† (source)
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She hoped Hesiod was wrong.† (source)
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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)
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is [Greek] Endnote 146: I correct these proofs abroad and am not within reach of Hesiod, but surely this passage suggests acquaintance with the Works and Ways, though it by no means compels it.† (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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but he will assuredly die, and not all his greatness and half-divine descent can fend off the destiny laid on him before his birth.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)
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Ever so far back, 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, essays, plays, Shakespeare, Schiller, Walter Scott, Tennyson, As some vast wondrous weird dream-presences, The great shadowy groups gathering around, Darting their mi† (source)
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