Author:Hesiod

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Hesiod
(c. 776 BCE – fl. 8th century BCE/fl. c. 700 BCE)

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Greek poet and rhapsode (a professional reciter of poetry); sometimes mistakenly described as "Hesiod of Cumae" in reference to his father's home Cyme in Aeolis

Works

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, transl. by H. G. Evelyn-White (1920)
Theogony
Works and Days
Shield of Herakles or Hercules
Catalogue of Women
The Remains of Hesiod the Ascraean, including the Shield of Hercules (1815), translated by Charles Abraham Elton

Works about Hesiod

“Hesiodus”, by Leonhard Schmitz in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
Hesiod, and Theognis, by James Davies (1873)
"Hesiod," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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