Works of Hesiod

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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.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Hesiodic corpus 4
Hesiodic poetry 3
Works of Hesiod canonical 3

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf corpus of ancient Greek poetry
didactic literature
associatedCulture Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
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
Theogony
linked to: Hesiod's Theogony

Works and Days
influenced Greek philosophy
Greek tragedy
Hellenistic poetry
Roman literature
later mythographic tradition
keyTheme Pandora myth
linked to: Myth of Pandora

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
theogony
linked to: Hesiod's Theogony
tradition Ancient Greek literature
transmittedThrough oral tradition
usedAsSourceBy Aeschylus
Apollodorus (Pseudo-Apollodorus)
Euripides
Ovid
Pindar
Sophocles
Virgil

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

Maia mentionedIn Works of Hesiod
Elysium mentionedIn Hesiodic poetry
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Works and Days partOf Hesiodic corpus
subject linked to: Hesiod's Works and Days
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women partOf Hesiodic corpus
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Nymphs of Greek mythology appearIn Works of Hesiod
Shield of Heracles literaryTradition Hesiodic corpus
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Shades in the Underworld appearsIn Works of Hesiod
House of Hades mentionedIn Hesiodic poems
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Ehoiai partOf Hesiodic corpus
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Mount Othrys mentionedIn Hesiodic tradition
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Mountains of Greece (mythological) appearsIn Hesiodic poetry
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Amphitrite appearsIn Hesiodic poetry
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Xenophanes of Colophon influencedBy Hesiodic tradition
linked to: Works of Hesiod
Greco-Roman paganism hasTextualSource Hesiodic poems
linked to: Works of Hesiod
golden apples of the Hesperides mentionedIn works of Hesiod
linked to: Works of Hesiod