Works of Hesiod

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corpus of ancient Greek poetry didactic literature

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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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Hesiodic corpus	2
Hesiodic poetry	1

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 ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

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

Nymphs of Greek mythology → appearIn → Works of Hesiod ⓘ

Elysium → mentionedIn → Works of Hesiod ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hesiodic poetry

Maia → mentionedIn → Works of Hesiod ⓘ

Hesiodic Catalogue of Women → partOf → Works of Hesiod ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hesiodic corpus

Hesiod's Works and Days → partOf → Works of Hesiod ⓘ

subject surface form: Works and Days

this entity surface form: Hesiodic corpus