Hesiod Portrait

Hesiod Portrait

FIG-0128c. 750 – c. 650 BCEGreek (Boeotian)

Hesiod

poetry · cosmogony · didactic poetry · mythology

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Key Works
LIB-0039
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Role in the Project

The first systematic Greek cosmogony — Theogony as the naming of divine forces before the Mysteries formalized initiation

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Hesiod

Dates: c. 750 – c. 650 BCE Domain: Poetry, Cosmogony

Biography

{2–4 paragraphs. Intellectual biography more than life events. What did they think, why does it matter?}

Key Works (in library)

Work Year Relevance
Theogony and Works and Days (LIB-0039) c. 700 BCE The first naming of what is — divine genealogy as pre-initiatory cosmology

Role in the Project

{How this figure functions in the Mystery Schools argument. Are they a primary theorist? A historical subject? Both?}

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  • Influenced by: {Names with FIG IDs}
  • Influenced: Homer (FIG-0068)
  • In tension with: {Names with FIG IDs}

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