Hesiod

Hesiod (fl. c. 700 BCE) was an early Greek poet, traditionally regarded as roughly contemporary with or shortly after Homer and counted among the foundational figures of the Greek literary tradition. He lived in Ascra, a village in Boeotia in central Greece, and worked in the genre of didactic and genealogical hexameter epic. Two complete poems are attributed to him: the Theogony, which systematizes the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, and the Works and Days, which combines agricultural advice, ethical instruction, and the myths of Prometheus and of the successive ages of humankind. His work was a primary source for later Greek conceptions of cosmogony and divine order and was widely cited throughout antiquity.