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Bronze head long identified as Hesiod (the “Pseudo-Seneca”), Roman copy, British Museum
Bronze head long identified as Hesiod (the “Pseudo-Seneca”), Roman copy, British Museum · Wikimedia Commons

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Hesiod

c. 700 BC · Poet

A farmer from Ascra in Boeotia who said the Muses taught him to sing on Mount Helicon. The Theogony puts the gods in order; Works and Days teaches justice, work and the farming year.

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Theogony, Works and Days and the Shield of Heracles, in Greek beside English.

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