Hesiod : Greek poet, first to incorporate a set of instructions poetically. His most famous poem contains advice for his brother & maxims for farmers.
... celebrated work of Hesiod, called the 'Phantasmagoria'. After expatiating upon the sad effects of poverty, you may remember — don't you remember, gentlemen? - Hesiod pathetically remarks: 'Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.'" On hearing this recitation by Curran Lord Avonmore bristled up at once. "Why, Mr. Curran, Hesiod was not an historian ...
... divinities who were upright in their earthly life, would that be an Page 87 unrewarding journey? Put it in this way: how much would one of you give to meet Orpheus 44 and Musaeus, 45 Hesiod 46 and Homer? I am willing to die ten times over if this account is true. It would be a specially interesting experience for me to join them there, to meet Palamedes 47 and Ajax 48 the son of Telamon... singer and poet but as the founder of Orphism. Musaeus was a bard like Orpheus, but his benefactions consisted in giving oracles and- instruction for the curing of disease. Hesiod of Ascra in Boeotia was the first didactic poet; he was generally ranked next after Homer in antiquity and merit. Palamedes a Greek warrior in the Trojan war, exposed a discreditable ...
... all clearly understood and therefore we find even poets of great power attempting Page 34 to set philosophic systems to music or even much more prosaic matter than a philosophic system, Hesiod and Virgil setting about even a manual of agriculture in verse! In Rome, always a little blunt of perception in the aesthetic mind, her two greatest poets fell a victim to this unhappy conception, ...
... things; Night and Day, Life and Death, the good and the evil, all are one, the eternal, the identical; those who see only a difference in objects, do not know the truth of the objects they observe. "Hesiod did not know day and night; for it is the One,"— esti gar hen, asti hi ekam . Now, an eternal and identical which all things are, is precisely what we mean by Being; it is precisely what is denied ...
... but as the founder of Orphism. 45 Musaeus was a bard like Orpheus, but his benefactions consisted in giving oracles and instruction for the curing of disease 46 Hesiod of Ascra in Boeotia was the first didactic poet; he was generally ranked next after Homer in antiquity and merit. 47 Palamedes a Greek warrior in the Trojan War, exposed a discreditable ...
... the contrary, he said: "Those of us who think death is an evil are in error.... For death is either a dreamless sleep or the soul migrates to another world. In the next world, I will converse with Hesiod and Homer and in that world they do not put men to death for asking questions.' And then he added: "The hour of departure has come, and we Page 130 go our way I to die, and you to live ...
... But no one has described the innermost secrets. And, indeed, "the mysteries of the Eternal" are only for the initiate. The myth, however, is simply told. It is, of course, older than Homer and Hesiod and has been recounted by them: Persephone, daughter of Demeter and Zeus, is carried off by Pluto, God of the Underworld, with Zeus' consent, when she goes to pluck the narcissus-flower, grown specially ...
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