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The poet Hesiod, shepherding sheep upon mount Helicon, is gifted the sacred laurel staff by the nine muses; a symbol of poetic authority. Apollo and Pegasus rest near the pool of Hippocrene.

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2023-01-06

According to Hesiod, a bronze anvil falling from the sky would fall nine days and nights and hit earth on the tenth day.

A bronze anvil falling down from earth would fall nine days and nights and reach misty, gloomy Tartaros on the tenth day.

🎨Felix J. Gardon

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2022-09-13

Achlys, according to Hesiod, is the personification of misery and sadness. She is mist clouding the eyes of those crossing into death, and her powers are associated with poison and the venom of war.

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2021-10-13

being a bodyguard and working in robotics can be quite tiring for Hesiod, even him needs a lil rest~

something a lil more wholesome and relaxed pic to do~

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2021-06-03

"From his own head he gave birth to owl-eyed Athena,
The awesome, battle-rousing, army-leading, untiring
Lady, whose pleasure is fighting and the metallic din of war."--Hesiod, Theogony (trans. Lombardo)

Photo: Athena Velletri via Tumblr (Salomi)

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2021-04-25

(3/5) According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia (Earth) and Tartarus, the darkest, most evil depths of Hades. Filled with Gaia's hatred of Zeus for destroying the Giants, her children, Typhon's sole desire was to destroy the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus.

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2021-03-20

Hesiod, sort of an Ancient Greek Bible

Much time and care is taken to bring the ancients to life; to imbue modern society with the idea that they were just like us in all their goodness and evil, their intoxication and sobriety, their love and lust...

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2020-09-15

In Ancient Greece, the veganism was referred to as “abstinence from beings with a soul” since they believed that all animals have souls. Some of the earliest : Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Plutarch, Hesiod, Thales, Diogenes & Heraclitus. 🌱

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2020-06-30

"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."
Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16



Art by Xanness:
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2020-06-28

Theban or 'swollen foot' appears in many works including &

Oedipus, Svetlin Vassilev, pubblished in the book Greek Mythology, 2006.

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2018-08-19