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Hesiod (Ησίοδος)(around 700 BC.)

Hesiod probably lived around 700 B.C., shortly after Homer, in a Boeotian village of Ascra -- one of the details of his life he reveals in his works. He worked as a shepherd in the mountains, as a youth, and then, as a small peasant on a hard land when his father died.While tending his flock on Mt. Helicon, the Muses appeared to Hesiod in a... More...

St. Vincent, 1993, The Apotheosis of Homer