Works of Hesiod

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The "Works of Hesiod" are a collection of ancient Greek didactic poems, chiefly including the "Theogony" and "Works and Days," that outline the origins of the gods, the structure of the cosmos, and moral and practical guidance for human life.

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Label Occurrences
Hesiodic corpus 4
Hesiodic poetry 3
Works of Hesiod canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf corpus of ancient Greek poetry
didactic literature
associatedCulture Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
associatedPlace Ascra
canonicalStatus major source for Greek mythology
comparedWith Homeric epics
creator Hesiod
date 7th century BCE (approximate)
form dactylic hexameter
genre didactic poetry
epic poetry
hasPart Catalogue of Women
Melampodia
Shield of Heracles
Hesiod's Theogony
surface form: Theogony

Hesiod's Works and Days
surface form: Works and Days
influenced Greek philosophy
Greek tragedy
Hellenistic poetry
Roman literature
later mythographic tradition
keyTheme Myth of Pandora
surface form: Pandora myth

ages of man
cosmic order
origin of the gods
proper conduct of farmers
role of Zeus
language Ancient Greek
period Archaic Greece
placeOfOrigin Boeotia
preservedIn medieval manuscripts
subject Greek mythology
agricultural instruction
cosmogony
divine–human relations
human labor
justice
moral teaching
Hesiod's Theogony
surface form: theogony
tradition Ancient Greek literature
transmittedThrough oral tradition
usedAsSourceBy Aeschylus
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
surface form: Apollodorus (Pseudo-Apollodorus)

Euripides
Ovid
Pindar
Sophocles
Virgil

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Maia mentionedIn Works of Hesiod
Elysium mentionedIn Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic poetry
Hesiod's Works and Days partOf Works of Hesiod
subject surface form: Works and Days
this entity surface form: Hesiodic corpus
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women partOf Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic corpus
Nymphs of Greek mythology appearIn Works of Hesiod
Shield of Heracles literaryTradition Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic corpus
Shades in the Underworld appearsIn Works of Hesiod
House of Hades mentionedIn Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic poems
Ehoiai partOf Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic corpus
Mount Othrys mentionedIn Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic tradition
Mountains of Greece (mythological) appearsIn Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic poetry
Amphitrite appearsIn Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic poetry
Xenophanes of Colophon influencedBy Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic tradition
Greco-Roman paganism hasTextualSource Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: Hesiodic poems
golden apples of the Hesperides mentionedIn Works of Hesiod
this entity surface form: works of Hesiod