Hesiod

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet. Scholars broadly date the TheogonyHesiod’s TheogonyGreek poem on divine generations and Zeus’s kingship; its surviving form does not identify all of Hesiod’s sources.Glossary · Click to read the explanation to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE; this is an approximate date for the work, not a documented birth date for the poet. ^[1]

The poem tells of the world’s and gods’ origins and successive divine generations, culminating in ZeusZeusZeus is the sky god and leading deity in many Greek traditions. In the Iliad he presides over divine gatherings while others can still speak and object.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s rule. Its TyphoeusTyphon / TyphoeusZeus's serpent-headed opponent, whose battle differs between Hesiod and later Greek accounts.Glossary · Click to read the explanation passage is read separately from Greek retellings composed centuries later. ^[1]