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.

All labels observed (6)

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

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

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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Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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