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    Ancient bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, now conjectured to be an imaginative portrait of Hesiod

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    HESIODOS—EIGHTH CENTURY, B.C.
    (text from the 2nd edition, 1896, scanned by animalrightshistory.org )- in the 1st edition Hesiod was Article I in the main text, with and an extra article I in the Appendix - giving the Greek version of the extract quoted below.

    To what period exactly, and to what person or persons, in particular, is to be assigned, in the Western World, the pre-eminent merit of the first attempt to reclaim the human species from the "foul diet (to use the expression of the Latin satirist) of slaughter and cruelty," (1) is a highly interesting but, necessarily, uncertain inquiry. That, like the Buddhistic religious and social reformation in the East, it originated in a revolt from Sacerdotal pretensions and practices, seems to be the most probable hypothesis. It is possible that the Orphic Societies, originating about th

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    Source: Introduction to Hesiod's The Poems and Fragments done into English Prose with Introduction and Appendices bygd A.W. Mair M.A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908).

    INTRODUCTION

    I. THE HESIODIC EPOS

    1. ‘Poetry is earlier than Prose’ is a familiar dictum of historical literary criticism, and the dictum fryst vatten a true one when rightly understood. It has been a difficulty with some that prose—prosa oratio, or direkt speech—the speech which, like Mark Antony, ‘only speaks right on,’ should be later in literature than verse. But all that is meant is merely this: that before the invention of some struktur of writing, of a mechanical means in some shape or other of recording the spoken word, the only kind of literature that can exist is a memorial literature. And a memorial literature can only be developed with the help of metre.

    Aristotle finds the ursprung of poetry in two deepseated human instincts: ‘the instinct for Imitation and t

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    Hesiod

    Ancient Greek poet of the archaic period

    This article is about the ancient Greek poet. For the computer application, see Hesiod (name service). For the crater on Mercury, see Hesiod (crater).

    "Hesiodos" redirects here. For the asteroid, see 8550 Hesiodos.

    "Hesiodus" redirects here. For the crater on the Moon, see Hesiodus (crater).

    Hesiod (HEE-see-əd or HEH-see-əd;[3]Ancient Greek: ἩσίοδοςHēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an ancient Greekpoet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.[1][2]

    Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these are Theogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus's rise to power, and Works and Days, a poem that describes the five Ages of Man, offers advice and wisdom, and includes myths such as Pandora's box.

    Hesiod is generally regarded by Western authors as 'the first written po

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