Chapter 3. Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism, pp. 36–82
Chapter 3. Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism The Hesiodic Question From the vantage point of the ancient Greeks themselves, no accounting of Homer is possible without an accounting of Hesiod as well. In the fifth century B.C., Herodotus was moved to observe (2.53.2) that the Greeks owed the systematization of their gods—we may say, of their universe—to two poets, Homer and Hesiod. The… Read more